Why might the author include the phrase “fact or fiction” in every heading throughout the article ?

What word or words suggest they have a monotonous marriage? in the lamb to the slaughter

Read the excerpt from "a pair of silk stockings." but she went on feeling the soft, sheeny luxurious things—with both hands now, holding them up to see them glisten, and to feel them glide serpent-like through her fingers. which best describes the underlying tone of the excerpt created by the connotations of the words “soft,” ”luxurious,” “glisten,” and “serpent-like”? 1. gloom 2. temptation 3. forgiveness 4. suspicion

Read the following passage and answer the question. this clumsy living that moves lumberingas if in ropes through what is not donereminds us of the awkward way the swan walks. describe the meaning of this quote in at least 150 words.