Read this passage:
Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil, as |
dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave, or
tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?...A
resistless and almost frantic impulse urged me forward; 1
seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one
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In this passage, how does Shelley create Gothic horror?
O
A. By creating physical terror in Frankenstein
O
B. By emphasizing motifs of death and decay
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O
c. By terrorizing Frankenstein with psychological fear
O
D. By giving Frankenstein a singular quest

Question 1 of 5 2 points in "how to eat an ice-cream cone," what does the author compare a melting ice cream cone to? o a. a hand grenade b. a runaway train o c. a machine gun o d. an atomic bomb submit

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

In “the bet” by anton p. chekhov, what motivates the lawyer to participate in the bet?