What best identifies the purpose of the expostition in a short story?

What is the meaning of the word checking as it is used in this sentence from the second paragraph of the passage?

Which sentence would not be appropriate for an essay or formal speech? a) most of the titles of faulkner's novels are references to the bible or to the works of william shakespeare. eliminate b) some critics believe that faulkner's novel the sound and the fury is the best novel of his entire career. c) the novels of william faulkner are way too hard to read, yo, filled with all these frustrating changing narrators! d) william faulkner traveled all the way from his home state of mississippi to sweden in order to make his nobel prize acceptance speech.

How does this poem resemble an elizabethan sonnet? it contains exactly 14 lines. it has no set rhyme pattern. it has a pattern of repeating lines. it has a set number of syllables per line.