[A]ny woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended
her days in some lonely cottage outside the village, half
witch, half wizard, feared and mocked at. For it needs little
skill in psychology to be sure that a happily gifted girl who
had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so
thwarted and hindered by other people.
Which statement best states the idea that this excerpt helps to develop?
O A. Historians have glossed over women's achievements.
O B. Society has held women back from greatness.
C. Men have conspired to keep women powerless.
D. Emotions have prevented women from success.

Read the excerpt from twelfth night, by william shakespeare. if music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. that strain again! it had a dying fall: o, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour! now read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." for i have known them all already, known them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, i have measured out my life with coffee spoons; i know the voices dying with a dying fall beneath the music from a farther room. what does the phrase “dying fall” most likely mean in both excerpts? the noise is jarring. the noise is soothing. the sounds are fading. the sounds are too loud. mark this and return

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Reread lines 6-7 "the survivor." determine how the tone of these differs from the preceding lines (1-5)