Which of the following parts from o'henry's "the gift of the magi" reveals information about a conflict in the story?
a. so now della's hair fell about her, rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters
b. she stood by the window and looked out dully at a grey cat walking a grey fence in a grey backyard
c. three times della counted it. one dollar and eighty seven cents. and the next day would be christmas. there was clearly nothing left to do .
d. jim had not yet seen his beautiful present. she held it out to him eagerly upon her open palm.

Use morphology and syntax to make grammatical sense of the following sentence (mark all that the ova of all mammals except the monotremes undergo holoblastic segmentation. the -s inflection indicates that monotremes is a plural noun. the suffix -ic indicates that holoblastic is an adjective. the suffix -ation in the word segmentation is a noun-forming suffix denoting a process. the -s inflection indicates that monotremes is a possessive noun.

Changing the sentence structure and how quickly events unfold in a story can affect which literally element?

The story line remains the same. the kids live in what was then one of the remaining beachfront slums, down the coast from the expensive malibu area. the beach was ruled by surfers, but in the afternoon, when the waves died down, some of the surfers, or their younger brothers, fooled around on skateboards. one day, skip engblom, the shop owner, comes up with a key breakthrough, polyurethane wheels: "they grip." with the additional traction, the z-boys try skating the sides of the big, open drainage canal that runs through the area. then comes a brainstorm: because of a drought, the area's swimming pools were drained. the kids started "borrowing" pools when the owners weren't home, to skate the curved sides.” where did “the lords of dogtown” originally practice their tricks? a. the beach c. an open drainage canal b. empty pools d. none of these