Read this excerpt from "ulysses" by alfred, lord tennyson: in offices of tenderness, and pay meet adoration to my household gods, when i am gone. he works his work, i mine. there lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: there gloom the dark broad seas. my mariners, souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me-- that ever with a frolic welcome took the thunder and the sunshine, and opposed free hearts, free foreheads-- you and i are old; what image does this line create of the ships, which is enhanced by the caesura? there lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: a. it states in a matter-of-fact way that going out to sea is what ships do. b. it points out how powerless the ships are as they meet the dangers of the ocean. c. it enhances the mystery surrounding traveling on the ocean. d. it emphasizes the urgency that is typical of sailors and their travels

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analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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