What is the bet between the lawyer and the banker? A

The banker will pay the lawyer two million

dollars to spend fifteen years in solitary

confinement.

B

The lawyer will pay the banker two million

dollars if he can't stay in solitary confinement

for five years.

C The lawyer must spend anywhere between five

and fifteen years in solitary confinement.

D The banker and the lawyer will attempt to see

who can last the longest in solitary

confinement.

Which type of story uses animals as characters in order to illustrate a general truth about human nature?

1. find at least 9 adjectives from this opening passage used to describe the setting of the story- "to build a fire" setting: day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. it was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. it was nine o'clock. there was no sun nor hint of sun, through there was not a cloud in the sky. it was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun. this fact did not worry the man. he was used to the lack of sun. it had been days since he had seen the sun, and he knew that a few more days must pass before that cheerful orb, due south, would just peep above the sky-line and dip immediately from view.

When a text is organized according to what happened first in the story in time order, this is known as what kind of structure?