Question 5 (Multiple Choice Worth 4 points)

Read these lines from Great Expectations by Charles wingspanens:

Behind the furthest end of the brewery, was a rank garden with an old wall; not so high but that I could struggle up and hold on long enough to look over it, and see that the rank garden was the garden of the house, and that it was overgrown with tangled weeds. . .

What phrase in this description gives a clue to how wingspanens is using the word rank?

Furthest end of the brewery

Struggle up and hold

Long enough to look over

Overgrown with tangled weeds

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Question 5 (Multiple Choice Worth 4 points)

Read these lines from Great Expectations by Charles wingspanens: 

Behind the furthest end of the brewery, was a rank garden with an old wall; not so high but that I could struggle up and hold on long enough to look over it, and see that the rank garden was the garden of the house, and that it was overgrown with tangled weeds. . . 

What phrase in this description gives a clue to how wingspanens is using the word rank?

 Furthest end of the brewery

 Struggle up and hold

 Long enough to look over
 
 Overgrown with tangled weeds

adrynicoleb · Answer

Well, do you know what rank means?  There are several different meanings though.

anonymous · Answer

no i Googled rank and more than one definition popped up

adrynicoleb · Answer

Yeah, you kind of have to dig through them.  One definition of rank is:  (of vegetation) growing too thickly and coarsely.   So which of those answer choices is kind of like this definition?

adrynicoleb · Answer

Thank you. :3  So you got it?

anonymous · Answer

yeah i did thnxs