excerpt from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin He had some ingenious men among his friends, who amus'd themselves by writing little pieces for this paper, which gain'd it credit and made it more in demand, and these gentlemen often visited us. Hearing their conversations, and their accounts of the approbation their papers were received with, I was excited to try my hand among them; but, being still a boy, and suspecting that my brother would object to printing anything of mine in his paper if he knew it to be mine, I contrived to disguise my hand, and writing an anonymous paper, I put it in at night under the door of the printing-house. Read the dictionary entry. piece n. 1. a part of a whole 2. an individual member of a unit 3. an unspecified distance 4. a literary, journalistic, artistic, dramatic, or musical composition It could be inferred that the word pieces in the paragraph mean "parts." Drag the answers into the boxes to correctly complete the sentences.

piece  n.  1. a part of a whole  2. an individual member of a unit  3. an unspecified distance  4. a literary, journalistic, artistic, dramatic, or musical composition

It could be inferred that the word pieces in the paragraph means "parts."

1) The inferred meaning of the word pieces as it is used in the paragraph is incorrect .

2) Definition 4 in the dictionary entry confirms the meaning of the word pieces as it is used in the paragraph.

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gilgamesh is a hero by birth as the epic explains it. in the epic the birth is explained in the way which tells us that gilgamesh’s creation was made perfect by the contribution of various god and that signifies the goal in his life, which was to become a hero and save mankind. an example from the text says. "the glorious sun shamash bestowed upon him glory; adad the terrible god of storms bestowed upon him courage. the great gods perfected his magnificence beyond all others, terrible like the great wild bull. two thirds god they made him; one third man they made him." a man born with superhuman qualities and partly god is destined to be a hero.

the heroic deeds carried by him later in his life also prove the heroic character of gilgamesh. for example hi battle with the ultimate beast humbaba is a proof of his bravery and characteristic heroism. gilgamesh was warned about the beast as the text says about humbaba “whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death". but with the superhuman strength gilgamesh did the job