Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this story. how does the author create surprise in "the horseman in the sky"? he creates unusual contrasts such as the height of the cliffs and the dooryard size of the meadow. he slows the pace and startles the reader by having the watchman hesitate twice before firing. he reveals that the soldier on watch lowers his gun in response to the prospect of shooting another person. he allows the reader to view the horse and its rider falling from the perspective of the soldier at the foot of the cliff.

One of the author’s purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted . . in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with . . enormous speed