Read the following excerpt from Hard Times by Charles Dickens, and answer the question
Stephen looked older, but he had had a hard life. It was said that every life has its roses and thoms, there
seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had
become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of the same somebody else's thoms in
addition to his own. He had known to use his words, a peck of trouble. He was usually called Old Stephen in
a kind of rough homage to the fact
What is the tone of this passage?
satirical
pitiful
mitted
impatient

Refer to the call of the wild to answer the question. what does the lost cabin symbolize for the men in the book? safety warmth power wealth

Which sentence would not be appropriate for an essay or formal speech? a) most of the titles of faulkner's novels are references to the bible or to the works of william shakespeare. eliminate b) some critics believe that faulkner's novel the sound and the fury is the best novel of his entire career. c) the novels of william faulkner are way too hard to read, yo, filled with all these frustrating changing narrators! d) william faulkner traveled all the way from his home state of mississippi to sweden in order to make his nobel prize acceptance speech.

What is your interpretation of the purpose of "doris lessing wins nobel prize in literature? " the purpose of the new york times article "doris lessing wins nobel prize in literature" is to explain why lessing is overrated as a writer, the purpose of the new york times article "doris lessing wins nobel prize in literature" is to explain why lessing is underrated as a writer. he purpose of the new york times article "doris lessing wins nobel prize in literature" is to explain how lessing's background plays in her writing career. the purpose of the new york times article "doris lessing wins nobel prize in literature is to explain why lessing did not get married.