After doing a close reading, why should you analyze the figurative language in a text? a. to reveal the author's background b. to reveal hidden meanings c. to understand characterization d. to understand the setting e. to understand the tone

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

How does the anonymous narrator’s first-person point of view in jonathan swift's “a modest proposal” affect its reading? a.it readers understand the social and political problems of the time. b.it indicates that the author is unbiased about the information provided. c.it leaves readers unsure about the credibility of the argument. d.it provides readers with a clear account of the political conditions of that time.

What is the problem with the following sentence: cameron, who has an extreme and unreasonable suspicion of other people and their motives, suffers from paranoia which is a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur, was absolutely sure that someone was following him even though he was absolutely alone and hadn't seen a car for miles and miles.