Which of the following is the system of rules and structure governing language? a. language
b. spelling
c. punctuation
d. grammar

answer: it puts the reader in the place of the elizabethan who has to pay fines for eating meat

(i has to answer this question once too, thats how i knwo the answer)

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”

in the quotation from passage, connie willis states that literature is a way for authors from the past to communicate with readers of today. we can read their stories, books, and other texts to learn lessons about life. willis refers to these lessons as messages “from beyond the grave.” willis has a favorable viewpoint about the timelessness of literature.