Which of the following sentences has a verb? a. she swam across the lake. b. she had rested on the dock. c. her brother paddled the canoe. d. he went home late.

Read these sentences from edgar allan poe's "the angel of the odd": it was a chilly november afternoon. i had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic truffe formed not the least important item, and was sitting alone in the dining-room with my feet upon the fender and at my elbow a small table which i had rolled up to the fire, … which element of this text suggests the events happened long ago? details about a fire descriptions of the furniture use of first-person narrator word choice and word order

What does twain find ironic and hypocritical about human patriotism?

Discuss how social status may align with historical criticism.