Read this excerpt from "rikki-tikki-tavi.""i was not a day too soon,” he said; for he could see the baby cobras curled up inside the skin, and he knew that the minute they were hatched they could each kill a man or a mongoose. he bit off the tops of the eggs as fast as he could, taking care to crush the young cobras, and turned over the litter from time to time to see whether he had missed any. at last there were only three eggs left, and rikki-tikki began to chuckle to himself, when he heard darzee's wife screaming. how does the author use personification in this excerpt? he explains that rikki-tikki is just in time. he writes that rikki-tikki begins to laugh to himself. he writes that rikki-tikki takes extra care not to miss any eggs. he says that rikki-tikki hears darzee’s wife. 

He writes that Rikki-tikki begins to laugh to himself.

Explanation:

Personification is a literary device used when we give a thing, idea, animal, nature, emotions or event (or any other non-human being) human characteristics.

In the excerpt, this literary device is used when Rikki-tikki, the Indian mongoose protagonist of the story, begins to laugh or to chuckle to himself, which it's a characteristic attributed to human beings only: Animals don't tend to laugh to themselves.

The other options are incorrect because if animals follow their protective instinct, they can hurry up to arrive at a place in order to save something or someone, they can hear humans voices (They have hearing sense), and they also have the instinct or impulse for protection so, in real life, an Indian mongoose would be able to take care not to miss any eggs.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

c) eager anticipation.