Which choice best explains why the author uses the metaphor "I'm living in the tombs" in the last stanza? (poem included) A) to reveal how the speaker feels about childhood friends who have passed away

B) to explain that the speaker feels uneasy in cemeteries

C) to reveal that the speaker's surviving childhood friends will soon pass away

D) to explain that the speaker prefers to be alone

In henrik ibsen's a doll's house, there are numerous references to dolls. nora mentions how she has bought dolls for her daughter, emmy. she also refers to her children as "nice little dolly children." which interpretation of this reference to dolls is the most plausible? a. the dolls symbolize nora’s childhood. they are a reminder of nora’s father and how he made her happy with dolls every time she was sad or upset. b. the dolls symbolize the deceptive ways in which nora pretends to live in a nice world even though she engages in criminal activity. c. the dolls symbolize both nora and her children. just as nora is a toy and plaything for torvald, her children seem to be her toys and playthings. d. the dolls symbolize nora's indifference toward her children. instead of nourishing her children with love, nora uses the dolls to show them her affection.

Examine the conflict of a popular film. in 7-10 sentences, explain how the writer/director crafts a story around that conflict and why it is engaging for an audience.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.