Read this excerpt from extremely loud and incredibly close. i started inventing things, and then i couldn’t stop, like beavers, which i know about. people think they cut down trees so they can build dams, but in reality it’s because their teeth never stop growing, and if they didn’t constantly file them down by cutting through all of those trees, their teeth would start to grow into their own faces, which would kill them. that’s how my brain was. which line best reflects the ambiguity of this excerpt?

"I started inventing things, and then I could not stop, like beavers".

Explanation:

Ambiguity is a figure of language also called amphibology. We can summarize the concept of ambiguity as a double meaning in the same sentence or sentence. This is when we have words or structures that can be interpreted in two different ways, causing confusion in speech.

In the excerpt shown in the question, the ambiguity is in the phrase "I started inventing things and then couldn't stop, like beavers." The author of the excerpt shows that people think that beavers cut down trees to build dams, when in fact beavers cut down trees in order not to die. Similar to beavers, the author states that he has started inventing things and although people think his inventions are for whatever reason, the author cannot stop inventing things so that his thoughts do not invade him and kill him and to express it the author used ambiguity in this sentence.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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me

i believe it is d.) previous creature