Romantic literature dominated american arts and letters up until the end of the 19th century. in "fenimore cooper's literary offences" twain discusses how cooper's writing fails because cooper's writing focuses more on imagination than on any sort of logic or realistic depictions. how does twain avoid these "literary offenses" in "the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county" and why is this avoidance significant?

What makes the literal, word-for-word translation of the metamorphosis hard to read?

Which sentence is correct? laura lent me her copy of cooking weekly so i could use a recipe. i enjoy doing crossword puzzles from the new york times. herman melville wrote the novel “moby d ick.” maggie loves to read the smithsonian magazine.

The courage that my mother had went with her, and is with her still: rock from new england quarried; now granite in a granite hill. the golden brooch my mother wore she left behind for me to wear; i have no thing i treasure more: yet, it is something i could spare. oh, if instead she'd left to me the thing she took into the grave! - that courage like a rock, which she has no more need of, and i have. based on the 2nd stanza, how does the speaker feel about the golden brooch that was passed down from the mother to child? question 2 options: a: the speaker thinks it was a waste of money b: the speaker places a high value on the item c: the speaker never wears the brooch d: the speaker feels it could be easily replaced