What does the excerpt(as follows) show about the historical context of the story? options
-There were no roads or automobiles in the area.
-Miners chose to walk for exercise.
-The mines were a short distance from civilization.
-There were few requirements to get to the mines.
The rest of the day went on just like the day before, and the day before that. Sam followed his brother as they inched their way through Chilkoot Pass, the worst part of the Klondike trail. It was this thirty-mile stretch that broke most gold-rush stampeders. Chilkoot was not only steep and narrow, but the brothers were each required to haul two thousand pounds of food and gear through its treacherous route. Failing to do so meant that the Canadian Mounties would send them home. So the pair pressed on, hauling packs for half a mile, setting them beside the trail and then going back for another, and another, and another. Sam guessed that they walked at least fifty miles for every mile they moved forward.

Match each literary device to its definition. pun the use of humor and exaggeration to mock or criticize people's impractical thoughts and practices irony the use of words in a way that conveys the opposite of what they mean paradox the use of a word with more than one possible meaning with the intention of creating humor satire ideas or concepts that seem absurd or contradictory but are nevertheless true arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth

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Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich shows the human tendency to contemplate one’s past life? "but if that is so," he said to himself, "and i am leaving this life with the consciousness that i have lost all that was given me and it is impossible to rectify it—what then? " he lay on his back and began to pass his life in review in quite a new way. in the morning when he saw first his footman, then his wife, then his daughter, and then the doctor, their every word and movement confirmed to him the awful truth that had been revealed to him during the night. in them he saw himself—all that for which he had lived—and saw clearly that it was not real at all, but a terrible and huge deception which had hidden both life and death. this consciousness intensified his physical suffering tenfold. he groaned and tossed about, and pulled at his clothing which choked and stifled him. and he hated them on that account. he was given a large dose of opium and became unconscious, but at noon his sufferings began again. he drove everybody away and tossed from side to side. his wife came to him and said: "jean, my dear, do this for me. it can't do any harm and often . healthy people often do it." he opened his eyes wide. "what? take communion? why? it's unnecessary! " she began to cry. "yes, do, my dear. i'll send for our priest. he is such a nice man." "all right. very well," he muttered. when the priest came and heard his confession, ivan ilyich was softened and seemed to feel a relief from his doubts and consequently from his sufferings, and for a moment there came a ray of hope. he again began to think of the vermiform appendix and the possibility of correcting it. he received the sacrament with tears in his eyes.