Read the following excerpt from sons and lovers by d. h. lawrence: mrs. morel was alone, but she was used to it. her son and her little girl slept upstairs; so, it seemed, her home was there behind her, fixed and stable. but she felt wretched with the coming child. the world seemed a dreary place, where nothing else would happen for her—at least until william grew up. but for herself, nothing but this dreary endurance—till the children grew up. and the children! she could not afford to have this third. she did not want it. . she despised [her husband], and was tied to him. this coming child was too much for her. if it were not for william and annie, she was sick of it, the struggle with poverty and ugliness and meanness. what aspect of this excerpt most clearly marks it as a work of modernism? a. it conveys the sense of defeat despite one's best efforts. b. the main character expresses distaste for marriage and family life. c. there is an overall feeling of imminent change and personal growth. d. children's happiness is valued more highly than adults' happiness.

What is similar about a satire and a parable? o a. both are based on a previous work. o b. both attempt to persuade an audience. o c. both use humor to entertain an audience. o d. both are very short in length.

"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

What is in his westrose president lincoln central claim in the speech