Based on the context of each sentence, choose the words that most closely match the denotation of the bolded words.
1/produced; shaped
2/knead, work
3/perplex; confuse
Great Oracle, why are you staring at me,
do i baffle you, do I make you despair?
(from "To the Oracle at Delphi"
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
1, Americus, the American,
wrought from the dark in my mother long ago
(from "To the Oracle at Delphi
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
I am kneaded by a million black fingers & nothing about me/ improves.
(from "Unanimity Has Been Achieved, Not a Dot Less for Its Accidentalness"
by Bob Kaufman)

How do to my dear loving husband and to the kings most excellent majesty's reflect cultural values of their time

The author most likely uses the word monstrous rather than the word “unpleasant” because it has a more positive connotation than the word “unpleasant.” a more negative connotation than the word “unpleasant.” a more neutral connotation than the word “unpleasant.” almost the same connotation as the word “unpleasant.”

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.