Read the excerpt from "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Conrad was born in 1857, the very year in which the
first Anglican missionaries were arriving among my
own people in Nigeria. It was certainly not his fault that
he lived his life at a time when the reputation of the
black man was at a particularly low level. But even
after due allowances have been made for all the
influences of contemporary prejudice on his
sensibility, there remains still in Conrad's attitude a
residue of antipathy to black people which his peculiar
psychology alone can explain.
The author's most likely reason for writing this
passage is
O to inform readers about Conrad's background.
O to describe how Anglican missionaries arrived in
Africa
O to entertain readers with stories of historical Africa.
Oto persuade readers that Conrad acted like
everyone else.

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification