What is the author assuming in the following sentence? “The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are
born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks.”
a. Pretty girls should only live with clerks.
b. Attractive, charming women should be born into wealthy families.
c. Being a clerk’s daughter is very lucky.
d. Clerks are often affected by fate and are usually well known.

What do you think tennyson is saying about the role of the artist and the connection of the artist to his or her society? cite evidence from the poem to support your view. your answer should be at least one hundred words.

Pls excerpted from "hope is the thing with feathers" by emily dickinson [2] and sweetest—in the gale—is heard— and sore must be the storm— that could abash the little bird that kept so many warm— [3] i've heard it in the chillest land— and on the strangest sea— yet, never, in extremity, it asked a crumb—of me. in the last stanza, the author writes that the little bird “never … asked a crumb of me.” which type of figurative language is evident in these lines? a. onomatopoeia b. alliteration c. assonance d. personification

The author’s purpose for including this in the introduction is