Enkidu said, "don't worry, my friend,
the dream you had is a favorable one.
the eagle that you saw, with a lion's head,
stands for humbaba. though it dived straight toward you
and terrifying flames shot from its mouth,
nothing could cause you harm. the young man
who came to your rescue was our lord, shamash.
he will stand beside us when the monster attacks.
whatever happens, we will prevail."

which statement best describes the epic feature used in this excerpt and its effect on the plot?

the difficult journey that gilgamesh must undertake causes him to feel defeated.
the vast landscape that gilgamesh must travel through adds tension to the plot.
the intervention of the supernatural gives gilgamesh hope that he will defeat humbaba.
the narrative voice of the epic poem makes it difficult for the audience to relate to gilgamesh.

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”