Answer asap. need a correct answer! what is shelley’s purpose for writing the introduction to frankenstein? a. to promote the principles of charles darwin and his experiments b. to give due credit to lord byron and others who inspired her novel c. to explain how she wrote a terrifying novel at such a young age d. to stop the publishers of the standard novels from making requests

To explain how she wrote a terrifying novel at such a young age,

Explanation: Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein when she was just 18 years old and it was published when she was 20, in the introduction to this novel she explains that she, Lord Byron and Percy Shelley (her husband) were having a competition to see who could write the best horror story, after a long time thinking about what she could write, she had a dream where she saw a man bringing some kind of monster to life, so she write that story in a few pages and then she developed it until it became a whole novel.

Shelley’s purpose for writing the introduction to Frankenstein was to explain how she wrote a terrifying novel at such a young age.

Explanation:

Mary Shelley tells the story of how the creation of Frankenstein became from a competition among friends, they were supposed to create a terrifying story, and the one who created the most terrifying one will be the winner, then she used metaphors from the inner monsters that we all have and created this classic story.

the difference of the poems of walt whitman and emily dickinson is that whitman uses personification, whereas dickinson avoids figurative language. whitman incorporates transcendentalism and realism in his works. on the other hand, dickinson's poems talks about death and immortality.

the sentence that best describes the tone of the passage from the radio broadcast compared to the passage from the book is b. the radio broadcast has a more surprised tone.

consider the text evidence: in the passage from the book, the description is more matter-of-fact. it is simply describing the things resembling little grey snakes, but there is no urgency in the description. on the other hand, in the passage from the radio broadcast, there is definetely urgency (you can tell from the expression used, "good heavens", which clearly indicates surprise.)