How does the personification in the lines “time lifts the curtain unawares, / and sorrow looks into her face…” affect meaning? a) when time lifts the curtain, the woman is shamed that she has been exposed. b) by making time a character, it illustrates how aging causes sorrow and suffering. c) sorrow contrasts with the joy in the first stanza, which shows readers that maintaining pardah protects women from sadness. d) sorrow can see the woman’s tears, and that forces readers to question whether pardah protects women or oppresses them.

Answer is D) Sorrow can see the woman’s tears, and that forces readers to question whether pardah protects women or oppresses them.

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an intensive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, such as himself, herself, themselves, yourself, ourselves. since band members is a third person plural, the correct intensive pronoun would be themselves. if the band was talked about as a collective noun, itself would be the appropriate intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the noun it's modifying which is why it directly follows it.

the autor of the text is bringing the point that one achievment of the president john f. kennedy was a success and this caused the next president to use a similar idea. the purposefor the use of the quotation in the text is to support the idea that peace corps was a result of the president's call. in this case, the quotation is presented as part of the writing and does not stand on its own.

answer a.