Caesar freely confessed to me that the greatest actions of his own life were not equal, by many degrees, to the glory of taking
it away. i had the honor to have much conversation with brutus; and was told that his ancestor junius, socrates,
epaminondas, cato the younger, sir thomas more, and himself, were perpetually together: a sextumvirate to which all the
ages of the world cannot add a seventh.
what would be the best suggestion to give to jonathan swift for improving the allusion in the passage?
provide some explanation of what made junius, socrates, epaminondas, cato the younger, and sir thomas more such an
interesting group.
give the time and place of the events.
add to the middle of the passage one long sentence full of imagery and figurative language.
invent three fake philosophers with unusual names and include them in the passage.

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds, in which the first martian exits the spacecraft.a sudden chill came over me. there was a loud shriek from a woman behind. i half turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now projecting, and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit. i saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me. i looked again at the cylinder, and ungovernable terror gripped me. i stood petrified and staring.what option accurately analyzes the impact of the narrator's thoughts and actions on the tone of the excerpt? the war of the worldsa disdainful tone is created as the narrator ponders the ugliness of the tentacles and turns to the shrieking woman.a melancholy tone is created by the narrator's thoughts of fear and refusal to avert his eyes.a tone of determination is created when the narrator thinks of escape and backs away from the edge of the pit.a fearful tone is created through the narrator's thoughts of horror and his glance at the cylinder.