Read the passage from "The Necklace." "He threw over her shoulders the wraps he had brought, the modest wraps of common life." What does the narrator mean by the metaphor "the modest wraps of common life?" Mathilde's wrap suggests her ambitions of wealth and her dream of advancing into high society. Mathlide's wrap represents her poverty and that she is not a member of the upper class. Mathilde's wrap is symbolic of the difference between her and her husband. Mathlide's wrap shows her humility.

Asap that time of year thou mayst in me behold when yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang upon those boughs which shake against the cold, bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. in this excerpt, what is the best meaning for the word "late"? not on time until recently dead well into the evening

According to eric shlosser’s introduction to fast food nation what is his book primarily about?

Which sentence would not be appropriate for an essay or formal speech? a) most of the titles of faulkner's novels are references to the bible or to the works of william shakespeare. eliminate b) some critics believe that faulkner's novel the sound and the fury is the best novel of his entire career. c) the novels of william faulkner are way too hard to read, yo, filled with all these frustrating changing narrators! d) william faulkner traveled all the way from his home state of mississippi to sweden in order to make his nobel prize acceptance speech.