English, 23.09.2019 22:30 amirasaleh1012
"by nightfall he was fatigued, footsore, famished. the thought of his wife and children urged him on. at last he found a road which led him in what he knew to be the right direction. it was as wide and straight as a city street, yet it seemed untraveled. no fields bordered it, no dwelling anywhere. not so much as the barking of a dog suggested human habitation. the black bodies of the trees formed a straight wall on both sides, terminating on the horizon in a point, like a diagram in a lesson in perspective. overhead, as he looked up through this rift in the wood, shone great garden stars looking unfamiliar and grouped in strange constellations. he was sure they were arranged in some order which had a secret and malign significance. the wood on either side was full of singular noises, among which--once, twice, and again--he distinctly heard whispers in an unknown tongue."
the quotation provides accurate evidence for all of the following statements about bierce's writing style except
a. bierce was a master of descriptive language.
b. bierce's writing lends itself to visualization on the part of the reader.
c. bierce's writing in this selection demonstrates a dreamlike state that provides the reader with foreshadowing about farquhar's fate.
d. bierce's simplistic style of writing allows the reader to easily untangle the complexity of the plot.
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Based on this excerpt the authors are most likely to attempt to answer which question
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What can be inferred from the following sentence in the passage? then he asked me my name. scarcely had i uttered it when he made a gesture of astonishment. a) the sentence implies that the attendant knows the colonel. b) the sentence implies that the colonel is giving up on life. c) the sentence implies that the attendant is going to get fired. d) the sentence implies that the colonel recognizes the attendant's name.
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