Question 3 unsaved “you bet! i hope jimmy has done half as well. he was a kind of plodder, though, good fellow as he was. i’ve had to compete with some of the sharpest wits going to get my pile. a man gets in a groove in new york. it takes the west to put a razor-edge on him.” based on this excerpt from "after twenty years," what does the term "razor-edge" most likely mean? question 3 options: clean shaven a knife-carrying criminal a culinary chef sharp & cunning

answer: sharp and cunning

the excerpt discusses the experiences the speaker has had since going to the west. he explains that he has had to compete with the "sharpest wits" (very clever and capable people). he also adds that because of this experience, he has had a "razor-edge" put on him. he argues that in order to compete with those "sharp wits," he has had to become cunning and clever himself. the comparison plays with the meanings of the word "sharp" as both a clever and cunning person, and a characteristic of a razor.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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the excerpt from chapter 2 of "animal farm", by george orwell that is an example of foreshadowing is "these three (snowball, napoleon, and squealer) had elaborated old major's teachings into a complete system of thought to which they gave the name of animalism." animal farm is an allegory of how czarist russia developed into communist russia with all its corruption. old major's teachings represent marx's theories turned into communism, animalism, by the three pigs. this foreshadows the oppression and corruption that will follow this revolt.