Try to rewrite the passage using as many of the same words as the original, but format it in a different way to change the syntax. Does your rewrite change the feeling of the passage

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive

From reading the first section of the legend of sleepy hollow, how would you identify this genre of literature?

Hurry and ! easter wings by george herbert lord, who createdst man in wealth and store, though foolishly he lost the same, decaying more and more, till he became most poore: with thee o let me rise as larks, harmoniously, and sing this day thy victories: then shall the fall further the flight in me. my tender age in sorrow did beginne and still with sicknesses and shame. thou didst so punish sinne, that i became most thinne. with thee let me combine, and feel thy victorie: for, if i imp my wing on thine, affliction shall advance the flight in me. 14 select the correct answer. what does the structure of the poem as the outspread wings of a flying bird convey? a. the idea of victory in the second stanza of the poem b. the poet's wish to rise from the fallen state of humanity c. the overwhelming beauty of nature d. the effect of harmonious flight of birds