Read the lines spoken by the messenger: "fate raises up, and fate casts down the happy and the unhappy alike." how does sophocles use figurative language in these lines?
a. he addresses fate as if it can reply.
b. he describes fate as fickle.
c. he personifies fate as a powerful person.
d. he compares fate to a wheel in motion.

Marla tells robin that some other women who were up at night saw the special forces heading into iraq from kuwait. when he asks why the women were up she replies, "had to go you know women did that? " why does she ask him this?

Explain the way that fay weldon appeals to her reader's logic and emotions in "letters to alice on first reading jane austen." your answer should be at least one hundred words.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.