Read the sentence.

some authors prefer to write long works of fiction that challenge readers to follow many characters and a complicated plot.

revise the sentence by choosing a precise noun to replace the underlined vague noun and adjectives.

novels
narratives
stories
literature

What do the details in this excerpt readers to infer about the barbarians?

When you don’t understand a concept during the lecture, it’s to flag it in your notes and leave a blank space so you can fill in more

What does the author see as the main cause for why students don’t really see shakespeare as a real, flawed human being? we shouldn’t shy away from discussing our literary heroes’ flaws. if nothing else, the knowledge of their failures us appreciate what success and greatness these authors did achieve. often our hero-worship keeps us from truly seeing the complexity of a great author. thus, i would argue, nothing would be better for high school students than to take shakespeare down a peg or two. a) the fact that students never learn enough about shakespeares biography b) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s comedies while in school c) the fact that students are never assigned to read any shakespeare while in high school d) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s greatest works in school and thus never see his weaknesses