Read the excerpt from the wind in the willows by kenneth grahame.
as he gazed, something bright and small seemed to twinkle down in the heart of it, vanished, then twinkled once more like a tiny star.
but it could hardly be a star in such an unlikely situation; and it was too glittering and small for a glow-worm.
then, as he looked, it winked at him, and so declared itself to be an eye; and a small face began gradually to grow up round it, like a frame round a picture.

how does the author’s word choice express the tone of the excerpt?

The speaker in the “to a mouse” regrets that the mouse runs away so fast because the

Does anyone know the answers to these two? i don’t want to have to guess, you!

Time is not always change. time can also mean continuity, and it can mean keeping acknowledged truths in mind despite differences in circumstances.there is no better example of this in things fall apart than the retellings of the proverb about the bird named eneke, the language in both retellings is almost identical despite the length of time that has passed between their repetitions. in comparing the usages of the same proverb, achebe allows his readers to note the similarities and differences between the situations, and he them understand how this story can be applied to their own lives.