Based on this excerpt, what can readers infer about the stories the fishermen were told about the barbarians?

The stories are completely true.
The stories lack detail.
The stories are completely false.
The stories are exaggerations.

What is the central idea of this passage? when i was a kid

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

Which line shows that ideas usually in opposite can be the same