Based on this excerpt from "how much land does a man need? " by leo tolstoy, how is the author using the character of the devil? "of course our work is rough and coarse. but, on the other hand, it is sure; and we need not bow to any one. but you, in your towns, are surrounded by temptations; to-day all may be right, but to-morrow the evil one may tempt your husband with cards, wine, or women, and all will go to ruin. don't such things happen often enough? " pahom, the master of the house, was lying on the top of the oven, and he listened to the women's chatter. "it is perfectly true," thought he. "busy as we are from childhood tilling mother earth, we peasants have no time to let any nonsense settle in our heads. our only trouble is that we haven't land enough. if i had plenty of land, i shouldn't fear the devil himself! " the women finished their tea, chatted a while about dress, and then cleared away the tea-things and lay down to sleep. but the devil had been sitting behind the oven, and had heard all that was said. he was that the peasant's wife had led her husband into boasting, and that he had said that if he had plenty of land he would not fear the devil himself. "all right," thought the devil. "we will have a tussle. i'll give you land enough; and by means of that land i will get you into my power." as a foil as an antagonist as a dynamic character as the protagonist

Can some one me with english? modernist poetry broke traditions in works that did all of the following except: question 1 options: a) experimented with language, symbolism, and imagery b) challenged rules about point of view, rhyme scheme, meter, and capitalization c) focused on the poem’s appearance on the page as a form of self-expression d) addressed subjects and ideas that had been explored in poetry for centuries.

What influenced robert louis stevenson's writingstyle?

"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