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read the messenger's lines as he speaks to eurydice:
"we made our prayers in that place to hecate and pluto, that they would be merciful. and we bathed the corpse with holy water . . "

why does the messenger allude to hecate and pluto in these lines?

a. these are names for fate, which is destroying creon's family.

b. these are the names of the place that the spirits of the dead go.

c. these are the gods who sent teiresias the warning about creon's actions.

d. these are the gods of the underworld, whom creon has offended.

What is the climax of chapter 2 of the the sound and the fury? a. the compsons sell their plot of land to send quentin to harvard. b. quentin drops out of school. c. quentin commits suicide. d. caddy gets pregnant.

In the following line, "so many crazed men, so much shouting, so much brutality, " what type of rhetorical feature is wiesel using to emphasize the image?

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive