Read the excerpt from act 2 of a doll's house. helmer: rank led me to expect a splendid transformation. rank: [in the doorway] i understood so, but evidently i was mistaken. nora: yes, nobody is to have the chance of admiring me in my dress until tomorrow. helmer: but, my dear nora, you look so worn out. have you been practising too much? nora: no, i have not practised at all. helmer: but you will need to— nora: yes, indeed i shall, torvald. but i can't get on a bit without you to me; i have absolutely forgotten the whole thing. helmer: oh, we will soon work it up again. nora: yes, me, torvald. promise that you will! i am so nervous about it—all the people—. you must give yourself up to me entirely this evening. not the tiniest bit of business—you mustn't even take a pen in your hand. will you promise, torvald dear? helmer: i promise. this evening i will be wholly and absolutely at your service, you little mortal. ah, by the way, first of all i will just— [goes towards the hall door.] nora: what are you going to do there? helmer: only see if any letters have come. nora: no, no! don't do that, torvald! helmer: why not? nora: torvald, don't. there is nothing there. how does ibsen use dramatic irony to create suspense in this passage?

What is one advantage of listening to an audio recording as opposed to silently reading a play?

Which of the following arguments uses a non sequitur fallacy? a. if we allow students to wear caps to school, soon we'll have to let them wear gang colors. b. you should vote for sylvia for class president because everyone else on the squad is voting for her. c. regulations on motorists should be lifted because factories are a bigger source of pollution. d. the gray wolves of winter falls park should be protected because they need our support.

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification