Answer one of the following questions. Select ONE of the following questions and write your answer in complete sentences.

Option 1. In a paragraph (2-3 sentences), explain some of the differences between a play and a work of fiction, such as a short story. What kinds of things does the playwright, or author of the play, have to consider that other authors do not? Use examples from the play you have read in this unit to support your answer. You do not have to use quotes from the play. You can simply discuss what you recall from having read the play.

Option 2. In a paragraph (2-3 sentences), explain what stage directions are and how they enhance both the performance of a play and the experience of reading a script. How would scripts be different if they did not include stage directions? Use examples from the play you have read in this unit to support your answer. You do not have to use quotes from the play. You can simply discuss what you recall from having read the play.

The play is Pygmilaion

Which two lines in this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich together use symbolism to indicate that death is approaching?

Hurry i am on the semester test which theme is evident in this excerpt from robert frost's "mending wall"? but at spring mending-time we find them there. i let my neighbor know beyond the hill; and on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again. we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. my apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. he only says, “good fences make good neighbors." spring is the mischief in me, and i wonder if i could put a notion in his head: "why do they make good neighbors? isn't it where there are cows? but here there are no cows. before i built a wall i'd ask to know what i was walling in or walling out, and to whom i was like to give offence. . " a. the human desire for material gain b. the influence of financial constraints c. the positive effects of friendship d. the uncertain nature of human relations e. the futility of human yearning

Explain what the text says explicitly. reread paragraph 2 of "civil peace." what does this paragraph reveal about jonathan and his family's circumstances? cite textual evidence to support your response.