According to the narrator, "The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders, from which number I subtract thirty thousand couple, who are able to maintain their own children, (although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom) but this being granted, thiere will remain an hundred seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand, for those women who miscarry, or whose childdren die by accident or disease within the year. There only remain an hundred and twenty thousand children of poor parents annually born. The question therefore is, How this number shall be reared, and provided for." Explain the narrator's metaphor and ironic math?

In henrik ibsen's a doll's house, there are numerous references to dolls. nora mentions how she has bought dolls for her daughter, emmy. she also refers to her children as "nice little dolly children." which interpretation of this reference to dolls is the most plausible? a. the dolls symbolize nora’s childhood. they are a reminder of nora’s father and how he made her happy with dolls every time she was sad or upset. b. the dolls symbolize the deceptive ways in which nora pretends to live in a nice world even though she engages in criminal activity. c. the dolls symbolize both nora and her children. just as nora is a toy and plaything for torvald, her children seem to be her toys and playthings. d. the dolls symbolize nora's indifference toward her children. instead of nourishing her children with love, nora uses the dolls to show them her affection.

Review the theme beauty exists within each person which line from beauty best communicates this theme

Match the term to the correct example. 1. allusion juliet: else would i tear the cave where echo lies, / and make her airy tongue more hoarse than 2. imagery chorus: that fair for which love groan’d for and would die, / with tender juliet match’d, is now not fair. 3. personification friar laurence: therefore love moderately; long love doth so; / too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. 4. foreshadowing romeo: the brightness of her cheek would shame those stars / as daylight doth a lamp.