40 points answer asap refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this narrative. which quotation from the "the oasis: africa" best supports the idea that the narrator is trying hard to keep going? “‘mohammed! ’ i called to my faithful algerian, ‘i can do no more; i am done! ’” “footsore and weary, but ever before us the pointing finger of the arab sheikh, and his ceaseless: ‘on, on.’” “i was at the end of my tether, racked with fever and aching all over; the heavy, old-fashioned mauser weighed me ” “i shambled along with clouded brain, but every fibre of my body torn with pain and fatigue.”

When grendel speaks of unferth and says "i could crush him like a fly" what literary device is being used

What ideal of imagist poetry is best reflected in this poem by ezra pound in which he compares a crowded metro station to a flowering tree branch? in a station of the metro the apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet, black bough. a. poetry should be about urban subjects and ideas. b. old poetry should be rewritten in a modern style. c. poets should be able to describe ordinary subjects in new ways. d. poets should write about new subjects with conventional techniques.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.