Until recently, parents didn’t let their children outside in Rivera Hernández, for fear of the six gangs that controlled the sprawling neighborhood of 150,000.

The gangs enforced a 6 p.m. curfew. Bodies littered the dirt streets in the morning. The 18th Street Gang set up a checkpoint, and every entering driver was asked: Where are you from? Where are you going? Anyone with wrong answers was shot on the spot.

—“How the Most Dangerous Place on Earth Got Safer,”
Sonia Nazario

Which phrases from the text contain words with strong connotations that help describe the violence in Honduras? Check all that apply.

“until recently”
“fear of gangs that controlled”
“sprawling neighborhood”
“enforced a 6 p.m. curfew”
“shot on the spot”
“bodies littered the dirt streets”

We can define connotation as the feeling or idea a word conveys.
In award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario's (born 1960) "How the Most Dangerous Place on Earth Got Safer," there are several words with strong connotations.
In the excerpt we are analyzing here, some specific words show how violent the streets of Honduras were.
By using them, the author wishes to vividly paint a picture in readers' minds, so that they can visualize the violence.
The words are: "fear", "gangs", "controlled", "enforced", "curfew", "shot", and "bodies". Through them, we can imagine the lack of freedom and constant fear of the people, besides the presence of death all around them.
In conclusion, we can say letters B. D, E, and F are the correct answers, since they are the ones containing those words.

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