Read this excerpt from endgame by samuel beckett: hamm: nature has forgotten us. clov: there's no more nature. hamm: no more nature! you exaggerate. clov: in the vicinity. hamm: but we breathe, we change! we lose our hair, our teeth! our bloom! our ideals! clov: then she hasn't forgotten us. hamm: but you say there is none. what theme does this passage most clearly develop? a. people sometimes grow dependent on painful, difficult relationships. b. language can be used to express nonsensical and meaningless ideas c. even at the end of the world, reverence for nature is necessary d. if human beings destroy the world, nature will rebuild it

Twenty years gone, and i am back again on my own island. as for my change of skin, that is a charm athena, hope of soldiers, uses as she will; she has the knack to make me seem a beggar man sometimes and sometimes young, with finer clothes about me. it is no hard thing for the gods of heaven to glorify a man or bring him low. —the odyssey, homer based on what odysseus says in the passage, what has he learned? humans can become like gods. humans are under the gods’ control. humans can change from beggars to soldiers.

Read this excerpt from “what i hope to leave behind.” for a number of years it took so much vitality to keep the home going, and that home represented so many different kinds of activities, that none of us had any urge to go outside of this sphere. if “what i hope to leave behind” was the subject of a class discussion, why might paraphrasing this sentence be ? you could analyze the key themes while also staying true to the original language. you could summarize the key ideas, which would shorten the length of the excerpt. you could use your own ideas and concepts, which would add important information. you could rephrase it in your own words, which might clarify the meaning of the excerpt.

3. how could the following sentence be rewritten as an exclamatory sentence? how dangerous was the saber-toothed tiger? a. tell someone how dangerous the saber-toothed tiger was. b. the saber-toothed tiger was dangerous. c. the saber-toothed tiger was dangerous! d. no change is necessary. c. the saber-toothed tiger was dangerous!