Which best describes how thorin is portrayed in this passage? "i will not parley, as i have said, with armed men at my gate. nor at all with the people of elvenking, whom i remember with small kindness. in this debate they have no place. begone now ere our arrows fly! " forgiving stubborn selfless reasonable

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.

Drag each excerpt to its poetic structure. what poetic structures are evident in these poetry excerpts blank verse ballad stanza something there is that doesnt love a wall

Which two statements about first-person narration are generally true? the narrator can be a witness or a reteller of events. the narrator always provides reliable information. o the narrator accurately knows past and future events. the narrator is a character in the story. the narrator knows everything about all characters.