Why do you think Carson presented her environmental warning as a fable? What shift occurs in the final paragraph of the excerpt? What effect do you think Carson is trying to achieve with this shift?

What is the effect? Carson begins "A Fable for Tomorrow" with imagery rather than exposition in order to represent events in ways that the reader could relate to and understand better. ... In the beginning of "A Fable for Tomorrow," the tone can be described as descriptive.

the two answers are

get thee back into the tempest and the night's plutonian shore

on the pallid bust of pallas just above my chamber door

the answer is emerged from.

orpheus descended to hades, the world of the death to rescue eurydice. no mortal had ever done this before him, he survived because he was protected by the gods. the word "underworld" gives us a clue, he emerged from it like a whale emerges form sea for exemple.