Read this passage from h. g. wells's the war of the worlds: and invisible to me because it was so remote and small, flying swiftly and steadily towards me across that incredible distance, drawing nearer every minute by so many thousands of miles, came the thing they were sending to us, the thing that was to bring so much struggle and calamity and death to the earth.
which statement best explains why wells calls the martian spacecraft "the thing"?
a. wells calls it "the thing" to explain to readers how unimportant it is to the rest of the story. b. wells calls it "the thing" to give readers the impression that it's almost too terrible to name or describe. c. wells calls it "the thing" to describe what the ship and the creatures within it look like to readers. d. wells calls it "the thing" to provide readers with the proper name he will use for it later.

Which of the following story descriptions most directly shares themes with the passage above

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive

Whos a good poet to listen to? i got back into shane koyczan and i'm wondering if anything else is out there.