Summarize what Saki discusses in "Birds on the Western Front" What is the effect of Saki's unusual, unex- perted narrative of World War I? Is he mocking human behavior by focusing on winged creatures? Explain.

How can rereading a passage to clarify the meaning of a later one?

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Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. read the following excerpt from the novel "oliver twist" by charles dickens. although oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature. if he had been, perhaps he would have been prepared for this. not being prepared, however, it alarmed him the more; so away he went