Read the following quote from “Lamb to the Slaughter” and answer the question. “The room was warm and clean, the curtains drawn, the two table lamps alight-hers and the one by the empty chair opposite. On the sideboard behind her, two tall glasses, soda water, whiskey. Fresh ice cubes in the Thermos bucket.”

How can we describe Dahl’s diction in this opening paragraph?

Confusing and frustrating

Sad and depressing

Descriptive and matter-of-fact

Warm and soft

Does anyone know the answers to these two? i don’t want to have to guess, you!

5read the following sentence from kennedy's inaugural speech.and so, my fellow americans, ask not what your countfor you; ask what you can do for your country.ot what your country can dothis sentence is an example of an antimetabole, a rhetorical device in whichthe speaker reverses the order of repeated words. antimetabole is used toplace added emphasis on the final part of the statement. which of thefollowing is also an example of antimetabole? a"this nation, for all its hopes and boasts, will not be fully free until itscitizens are free." – john f. kennedy, 1963"forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."- john f. kennedy, quoted in 1984 by ed kochc"mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."- john f. kennedy, 1961d"a man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."- john f. kennedy, 1962

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification