9.) read the excerpt below and answer the question. evergreen trees wore a dusty coat of brown. the birds were silenced in the forest, and the world lay panting under the live, vibrating heat. what literary device does achebe employ in this excerpt from chapter 14 of things fall apart? a. irony b. personification c. simile d. symbolism

In me thou seest the twilight of such day, as after sunset fadeth in the west, which by and by black night doth take away, death's second self that seals up all in rest. —"sonnet 73," william shakespeare read the second quatrain of “sonnet 73,” and then answer the questions. what is the best paraphrase of these lines? what is the central idea of these lines?