Which most likely explains why the author begins the exposition of grendel in an unlit cave?
a. this allows the setting and the characters to seem timeless.
b. the author feels readers can best relate to a child in a cave.
c. this mirrors how grendel gradually develops understanding.
d. the author is not certain about the details of grendel's birth.

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds, in which the first martian exits the spacecraft.a sudden chill came over me. there was a loud shriek from a woman behind. i half turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now projecting, and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit. i saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me. i looked again at the cylinder, and ungovernable terror gripped me. i stood petrified and staring.what option accurately analyzes the impact of the narrator's thoughts and actions on the tone of the excerpt? the war of the worldsa disdainful tone is created as the narrator ponders the ugliness of the tentacles and turns to the shrieking woman.a melancholy tone is created by the narrator's thoughts of fear and refusal to avert his eyes.a tone of determination is created when the narrator thinks of escape and backs away from the edge of the pit.a fearful tone is created through the narrator's thoughts of horror and his glance at the cylinder.

Of the three major american regional dialects, which dialect is closest to your own vocabulary and pronunciation

In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire that on the ashes of his youth doth lie, as the deathbed whereon it must expire consumed with that which it was nourished by. which theme do these lines best support? a. all people grow old and die. b. in old age, people grow like a fire. c. flames turn everything to ash d. fire glows and burns