Why does the speaker name things like Mother Goose from nursery rhymes in the poem “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me.” What is a counterpane?

What background knowledge would best support this inference about mario?

What can you infer about gregor from this excerpt? a. he is ungrateful and refuses to eat all of the food that grete brings for him b. his appetite is good, which shows that his body is trying to return to human form c. he always eats trash, and grete is trying to get him to remember being human d. his eating habits are changing, and he is becoming physically less human

Hyperbole in the book messenger by lois lowry