Excerpt from History, by Ralph Waldo Emerson There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once
admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think, what a saint has
felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to
all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.
This passage reflects the ideas of an important philosophical movement in American literature known as
A)
progressivism
B)
realism
symbolism
D)
transcendentalism.

The novel begins with a flashback. what do you think is its purpose? what do you learn about the narrator?

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What effect is created by the plaque posted on the gate at the entrance to the family's home in nadine gordimer's "once upon a time"? the words written on the plaque offer readers a foreshadowing of the story's outcome without revealing the actual conclusion, the author's use of flashback allows readers to understand what is at the heart of the issues of encroachment in the suburban neighborhood the repetition of the words written on the plaque presents an oxymoron because readers already sense that the plaque has been ineffective in warding off intruders. the author introduces a paradox in which readers are presented with a warning notice when no actual infraction has taken place.