Read the following excerpt from "the necklace" by guy de maupassant.
she suffered intensely, feeling herself born for every delicacy and every luxury. she suffered from the poverty of her
dwelling, from the worn walls, the abraded chairs, the ugliness of the stuffs. all these things, which another woman of her
caste would not even have noticed, tortured her and made her indignant.
choose which words describe this character.
a worn, ugly, mean
b. tormented, insulted, poor
c. mean, delicate, luxurious
d. classy, unaware, delicate

Excerpted from "hope is the thing with feathers" by emily dickinson [2] and sweetest���in the gale���is heard��� and sore must be the storm��� that could abash the little bird that kept so many warm��� [3] i've heard it in the chillest land��� and on the strangest sea��� yet, never, in extremity, it asked a crumb���of me. in the last stanza, the author writes that the little bird " a crumb of me" what type of figurative language is evident in these lines? a. onomatopoeia b. alliteration c. assonance d. personification

Why does lewis thomas express concern about what we would say to beings from another planet

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive