Read this excerpt from Beowulf by an anonymous Anglo- Saxon poet.
Which word best provides a context clue to the meaning of
mead-hall?
Hrothgar, king of the Danes, or Scyldings, builds a great
mead-hall, or palace, in which he hopes to feast his
liegemen and to give them presents.
palace
Liegemen
feast
king

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

hope this !

i'm pretty sure i had this question the other day and b was the right answer.

to convince americans of the importance of others.