read the excerpt from henry david thoreau's walden, and then answer the question.

"for the first week, whenever i looked out on the pond it impressed me like a tarn high up on the side of a mountain, its bottom far above the surface of other lakes, and, as the sun arose, i saw it throwing off its nightly clothing of mist, and here and there, by degrees, its soft ripples or its smooth reflecting surface was revealed, while the mists, like ghosts, were stealthily withdrawing in every direction into the woods, as at the breaking up of some nocturnal conventicle."

the excerpt illustrates the typical of thoreau's writing style.
a. simple language
b. descriptive language
c. personal language
d. romantic language

Which phrase in this excerpt from james joyce's "araby is a participial phrase? north richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the christian brothers' school set the boys free. an uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. the other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces the former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. among these i found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: the abbot, by walter scott, the devout communicant and the memoirs of vidocq. i liked yellow. the wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which i found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. he had been a very charitable priest, in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.

The goal of __ painters was not to make a photographic representation of a subject, but to capture the impression of a particular moment in time a) still artist b) realist c) impressionist

Pls due today which excerpt from the text most effectively demonstrates that the narrator's point of view about the cabuliwallah has changed? "i felt a little sorry, and would have called him back, but i found he was returning of his own accord." "i sent for mini immediately from the inner apartment. many difficulties were raised, but i would not listen." "tears came to my eyes. i forgot that he was a poor cabuli fruit-seller, while i was—. but no, what was i more than he? he also was a father." "i took them and was going to pay him, but he caught my hand and said: "you are very kind, sir! keep me in your recollection. do not offer me money! —"