Why do we care about a story's historical and cultural context?

a.
knowledge about a story's historical and cultural context to ensure that we don't miss the author's point.

b.
knowledge about a story's historical and cultural context to provide a richer reading experience.

c.
knowledge about a story's historical and cultural context to ensure that any arguments we make about the text are well supported.

d.
any and all of the above.

Read the excerpt from "a modest proposal." the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown. which statement effectively uses a quotation to show that swift claims that the poor will also benefit from his proposal? “swift writes that poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress.” swift writes that poorer tenants will finally have something to pay their landlord’s rent since they have neither money nor trade. swift writes that poorer tenants will have something to trade for rent since “their corn and cattle” have already been seized. swift writes that “poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own” that can “ to pay their landlord’s rent.”

What is the independent cause in this sentence? "if the poem is about going mad when love is lost, what would happen if love didn't die? "

Wind blowing briskly leaves falling from the tree which best identifies the form of poetry represented by the stanza? 1.) free verse2.) iambic pentameter3.)sonnet4.) quatain