Iam a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best. —herman melville, "bartleby the scrivener" in the bolded section, what is the benefit of using "from his youth upward" rather than "from an early age" or "always"? it suggests a very old and feeble narrator without any true sense of right or wrong. it suggests an attitude of understandable and debilitating fear in the narrator. it suggests the narrator sees himself as someone who has grown more successful over time. it suggests the narrator has a strong sense of loss after the things he has described in the passage.

The courage that my mother had went with her, and is with her still: rock from new england quarried; now granite in a granite hill. the golden brooch my mother wore she left behind for me to wear; i have no thing i treasure more: yet, it is something i could spare. oh, if instead she'd left to me the thing she took into the grave! - that courage like a rock, which she has no more need of, and i have. based on the 2nd stanza, how does the speaker feel about the golden brooch that was passed down from the mother to child? question 2 options: a: the speaker thinks it was a waste of money b: the speaker places a high value on the item c: the speaker never wears the brooch d: the speaker feels it could be easily replaced

“the bane of the internet” is written in first-person subjective point of view, so the narrator a) tells the story as it is happening b)tells the story as it is happened in the past c)is a minor character who tells the story as it is happening d)none of the above

Which word best describes the meaning of the word putrescent? a. earthy b. floral c. rotten d. strong