The very first chords which mademoiselle reisz struck upon the piano sent a keen tremor down mrs. pontellier's spinal column. it was not the first time she had heard an artist at the piano. perhaps it was the first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an impress of the abiding truth. she waited for the material pictures which she thought would gather and blaze before her imagination. she waited in vain. she saw no pictures of solitude, of hope, of longing, or of despair. but the very passions themselves were aroused within her soul, swaying it, lashing it, as the waves daily beat upon her splendid body. she trembled, she was choking, and the tears blinded her. which statement best explains how the excerpt reveals a moment of epiphany for mrs. pontellier? a. she is lost in memories from her past. b. she recognizes her moral duty to society. c. she understands exactly what action she must take. d. she is going through a personal transformation.

Pls excerpted from "hope is the thing with feathers" by emily dickinson [2] and sweetest—in the gale—is heard— and sore must be the storm— that could abash the little bird that kept so many warm— [3] i've heard it in the chillest land— and on the strangest sea— yet, never, in extremity, it asked a crumb—of me. in the last stanza, the author writes that the little bird “never … asked a crumb of me.” which type of figurative language is evident in these lines? a. onomatopoeia b. alliteration c. assonance d. personification

Which statement is most clearly objective?

In 1808, their friend, the romantic poet clemens brentano, asked them to collect all types of folk tales so he could use them in a book of literary fairy tales. in 1810, they sent him fifty-four texts, which they fortunately copied. fortunately, because brentano then lost the manuscript in the ölenberg monastery in alsace and never used the grimms’ texts. when they realized that brentano was not going to use the tales, they decided, upon the advice of another romantic writer and mutual friend, achim von arnim, to publish their collection. it had grown to eighty-six tales, which they published in 1812, and then another seventy, which they published in 1815. –“how the grimm brothers saved the fairy tale,” jack zipes what structural technique does the writer use in this passage? the writer describes events in chronological order. the writer describes events in their order of importance. the writer provides a central idea and then lists examples. the writer shows how the grimms made mistakes and then solved them.