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3.mr. lanyon tells utterson: “it is more than ten years since henry jekyll became too fanciful for me. he began to go wrong, wrong in mind; and though of course i continue to take an interest in him for old sake’s sake as they say, i see and i have seen devilish little of the man. such unscientific balderdash,” added the doctor, flushing suddenly purple, “would have estranged damon and pythias.” (page 14)
in the above passage, what is the intended meaning of the word fanciful?
select one:
b. beyond the realm of reality and/or sanity
c. effeminate
d. devilishly insane
6.read the following excerpt from the passage and identify the dominant (central or overriding) rhetorical device:
it was a wild, cold, seasonable night of march, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her, and a flying wrack [clouds] of the most diaphanous and lawny texture. the wind made talking difficult, and flecked the blood into the face. it seemed to have swept the streets unusually bare of passengers, besides.
select one:
a. personification
c. metaphor
d. synesthesia (the description of one kind of sense perception using words that describe another kind of sense perception)