Explain why mr. shiftlet is able to get what he wants from mr. crater. What traits make him a good con artist? what makes mrs. crater the perfect victim for this kind of deception? cite evidence to support response.

Sonnet 57 being your comprehension your servant is the a. speaker b. person addressed in the poem c. husband of the speakers beloved d. beloveds serving woman

When first i engaged in this work, i resolved to leave neither words nor things unexamined, and myself with a prospect of the hours which i should revel away in feasts of literature . . –preface to a dictionary of the english language, samuel johnson what is the connotation of the word revel in this passage?

Explain the effect of the rhetorical questins for the below paragraph."i pinched myself: was i still alive? was i awake? how was it possible that men, women, and children were beiing burned and that the world kept silent? no. all this could not be real. a nightmare soon i would wake up with a start, my heart pounding, and find that i waas back in the room of my childhood, with my "