Based on the diction in the quote below from poet w. h. auden, which of the following inferences can be made? a crowd has a generalized stink about it. the public is odorless. a. w. h. auden is sensitive to odors. b. w. h. auden does not like being around a lot of people. c. w. h. auden feels that when crowds of people gather around it increases body odor, so it’s better to spread out. d. w. h. auden feels that people in general are not bad, but when a crowd gathers together, they usually do not have good intentions. select the best answer from the choices provided a b c d

What effect does an author achieve b the language of the monstrous? y using words with strong connotations? how does this relate to

Life is a barren field frozen with snow. what literary device is he using? a.metaphor b. simile c. personification d. none of the above

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”