(From the passage “a metamorphosis”) Which sentence from the text suggests that the narrator is not very confident about the quality of
his own work?
A.
Rob," I blurted, and while I was casting around for some coherent way to ask this man
what I wanted to ask, he somehow beat me to it.
B.
Before I could put my analysis of, say, Kafka's Metamorphosis into words, I had to
work out my thoughts from the book in pictures: Gregor Samsa's shadowy bedroom,
the crooked legs of the insect he had become.
"These are very fine," he said, and I must have looked like I didn't believe him,
because he said it again, emphatically."
D.
In my adolescent restlessness, I didn't have the patience for sketching sneakers,
flowers, the tree in the school courtyard.

invention of the washing machine

in the past, people used sticks and stones or scrub boards to clean their clothing. as it was sweaty, backbreaking work, we owe a world of to james king because he created the model for the modern washing machine in 1851. the most important issue was that this machine cleaned clothes while a person cranked the handle. doing this made people who used it develop strong muscles in their arms. later, in 1908, alva j. fisher created an electric washing machine named thor. this one was not the first automatic washing machine. however, it was one of the most popular models at the time.

the two sonnets of sidney most closely follows the division between the octave and the sestet are the astrophel and stella sonnets.

hasty generalization