Read these lines from the opening of Oedipus the King, Part II, in which the Thebans pray to the gods to grant them humility:

Chorus. But the proud man,
The man who spits in the face of justice,
The man who scorns the altars of the gods,
That man will lose his empty dreams in the whirlwind of god’s fire.

Which best describes the effect of the anaphora in the chorus's speech? Choose two options.

A. The anaphora adds solemnity and weight to the Chorus's warning about the man who does not respect the gods.

B. The anaphora emphasizes the Chorus's warning by making the words difficult to remember.

C. The anaphora arouses the reader's suspicion that the conflict is about to be resolved.

D. The anaphora limits the chorus to only one grammatical clause.

E. The anaphora adds balance and rhythm to the speech.

F. The anaphora disguises the main point of the speech.

sight: watching a movie

touch: petting a dog

smell: smelling dinner

hearing: listening to music

taste: eating pizza

no it who u choose to be. let no one tel u what or who to be;

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.