Match the following:
Part A
1. Wes liked very scary movies. After an especially scary scene, he felt a tap on his shoulder and nearly jumped out of his seat.
2. Meena got a mild sunburn, but a couple of hours later she didn’t notice the pain anymore.
3. Owen got glasses a year ago. He wears them daily but has stopped noticing them.
4. Lexi was outside when a loud clap of thunder occurred very close by. When her friend called her name immediately afterward, she was quite startled.
Part B
a. sensitization
b. habituation
c. sexsitization

Nature is a recurring theme in early american literature. what view of nature does phillis wheatley provide in "an hymn to the evening"

With crack on crack of thunder, zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. they came up 'round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. no more seafaring homeward for these, no sweet day of return; the god had turned his face from them. –the odyssey, homer read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.

Match each excerpt to the epic characteristics it contains