Which four excerpts from the poem "a political reverie" by mercy otis warren imply that america was an oppressed and exploited nation? no despot here shall rule with awful sway (a) (nor orphan's spoils become the minion's prey); no more the widow'd bleeding bosom mourns, (b) (nor injur'd cities weep their slaughter'd sons); for then each tyrant, by the hand of fate, (c) (and standing troops, the bane of every state, forever spurn'd, shall be remov'd as far) as bright hesperus from the polar star; freedom and virtue shall united reign, (d) (and stretch their empire o'er the wide domain. on a broad base the commonwealth shall stand), when lawless power withdraws its impious hand; (e) (when crowns and sceptres are grown useless things, nor petty pretors plunder here for kings)

How does the author use structure to create tension in the excerpt

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

What can you infer about gregor from this excerpt? a. he is ungrateful and refuses to eat all of the food that grete brings for him b. his appetite is good, which shows that his body is trying to return to human form c. he always eats trash, and grete is trying to get him to remember being human d. his eating habits are changing, and he is becoming physically less human