Many of la fontaine's fables are essentially complex, nuanced, versified versions of aesop's fables. through la fontaine' s telling, these fables are granted new and complex meanings. la fontaine reveals a great deal about the social and intellectual climate of his own time in his recounting of these fables.

Which aspect of mary shelley's frankenstein most clearly indicates that romanticism influenced the story? a. frankenstein compares his home life of nature, books, and love to his madness. b. natural philosophy is what drives frankenstein's fate and future. c. frankenstein finds relief from his torment in natural settings. d. frankenstein is undisturbed by reality as he seeks to discover the secret of life.

Use morphology and syntax to make grammatical sense of the following sentence (mark all that the ova of all mammals except the monotremes undergo holoblastic segmentation. the -s inflection indicates that monotremes is a plural noun. the suffix -ic indicates that holoblastic is an adjective. the suffix -ation in the word segmentation is a noun-forming suffix denoting a process. the -s inflection indicates that monotremes is a possessive noun.

Satire can best be defined as the literary form or technique in which and are used to criticize one's vices.