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In the passage "Aesop's Life," what is the effect of the anecdote about Aesop's death?

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In the passage "Aesop's Life," what is the effect of the anecdote about Aesop's death?

A. It provides conflicting opinions as to the cause of his death.

B. It suggests that Aesop's life will forever remain a mystery.

C. It shows that all people, including legends, must one day die.

D. It teaches the dangers of punishing an innocent person.

B. It suggests that Aesop's life will forever remain a mystery.

Explanation:

According to the passage, "Aesop's Life", a narrator described the story of Aesop and how he was supposedly a slave who was good with words and could talk his way out of trouble by telling stories relating to the present trouble he was in.

Aesop was said to have been cured of some sort of disability by supernatural forces but was violently put to death when he was thrown off a cliff for allegedly stealing.

The effect of the anecdote of Aesop's death is that the life of Aesop would forever remain a mystery.

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#1: what is the simile that occurs in lines 43-47 (below)? give exact words for just the simile. #2: explain what frost means by this comparison.

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.

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