Read the excerpt from chapter 13 of the awakening. she could speak no english, but when robert made her understand that the lady who accompanied him was ill and desired to rest, she was all eagerness to make edna feel at home and to dispose of her comfortably. what is the denotative meaning of the word “dispose” in this excerpt?

a. to throw away

b. to place in order

c. to set up

d. to settle a matter

Poe’s narrator describes usher’s mind, as being able to “pour forth..darkness” as if it were an “inherent positive quality.” what is the significance of poe’s metaphor? and what does it suggest about the human tendency to project one’s thoughts or emotions?

In this excerpt from "dover beach" by matthew arnold, which two lines or sets of lines suggest that the speaker has undergone a loss of faith? the sea of faith was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. but now i only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, retreating, to the breath of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear and naked shingles of the world. ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.

Messalla frowns at the wide circular cover, for a moment returning to his own fussy world.