Which description best fits the speaker based on his language use?
i can remember how when i was young, i believed death to be a phenomenon of the body. now i know it to be merely a function of the mind—and that of the minds that suffer the bereavement.
(from as i lay dying by william faulkner)
a young farmworker
an uneducated trader
an old, philosophical doctor
a vagrant outcast from society

Select the correct answer. which theme is evident in this excerpt from alfred lord tennyson’s narrative poem “the charge of the light brigade”? “forward, the light brigade! ” was there a man dismayed? not though the soldier knew someone had blundered. theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die. into the valley of death rode the six hundred. a. the folly of ambition and greed b. the inability of humans to face death c. the heroism of unquestioning sacrifice d. the futility of obedience

What’s the importance of gaining a general understanding of and interpretation of the work of literature.

The following question is based on your reading of a midsummer night’s dream by william shakespeare. why does puck transform bottom? a. to disrupt the play. c. to scare the mechanicals. b. for revenge on theseus. d. to scare the lovers.