Which best defines a universal theme in literature?

a. it is a theme that applies to anyone, anywhere.

b. it is based on specific characters in a story.

c. it is the resolution to the climax of a short story.

d. it is the moral of a story.

What superstitions do the children have in connection with the radley house?

Even the insistent cough of the woman next to him wasn't enough to draw his eyes away from the tiny type of the ancient book its pages were brittle and felt like they could crumble at the slightest disturbance he noticed the musty odor if each page as he carefully it over.

Match each literary device to its definition. pun the use of humor and exaggeration to mock or criticize people's impractical thoughts and practices irony the use of words in a way that conveys the opposite of what they mean paradox the use of a word with more than one possible meaning with the intention of creating humor satire ideas or concepts that seem absurd or contradictory but are nevertheless true arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth