Fill in the blanks. 1. A close look at Kafka's life may provide into the themes of his stories. 2. In "Letter to His Father," Kafka describes feeling weak in comparison to his father. 3. Together "Letter to His Father" and The Metamorphosis show that Kafka saw relationships between and as being characterized by violence and negativity. 4. When Kafka wrote The Metamorphosis, Europe was becoming industrialized and an increasing number of people worked jobs. 5. Because an increasing number of people worked tedious jobs, Kafka's audience probably to Gregor's unhappiness with his tedious work.

What is the first step in summarizing a plot? restating central ideas and key details eliminating minor or unimportant details connecting ideas with logical transitions identifying important words and phrase

Read the passage to determine the meaning of the word humanities. studying the humanities, such as art, literature, and philosophy, can you understand an ancient society. use the drop-down menus to answer the questions. what is the most likely meaning of the word humanities?

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man