"he hesitated, and as he did so heard again the bell; the bicycle bell. it was approaching him fast, bearing down on him, urgent, menacing. he could hear the pedals, almost see the shimmer of an invisible wheel…he was looking into two eyes carved out of expressionless air; he was held by two hands knotted together out of the width of dark." this quote from "sonata for harp and bicycle" occurs at which stage in the plot diagram? 1.falling action2.rising action3.climax4.exposition

In this excerpt from "dover beach" by matthew arnold, which two lines or sets of lines suggest that the speaker has undergone a loss of faith? the sea of faith was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. but now i only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, retreating, to the breath of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear and naked shingles of the world. ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.

Read this excerpt from tim o’brien‘s “ambush” “i had already pulled the pin on a grenade. i had come to a crouch” which literary device is most clearly shown in this excerpt?

Write an argumentative paragraph answering does technology make us feel more alone?