1. the statements, "and the sooner the better! " and "it has to be! " from "all watched over by machines of loving grace" develop the speaker as

a) conversational
b) indirect
c) urgent
d) vague

2. in "the secret life of walter mitty, " walter has challenging fantasies because

a) he has an unidentified mental problem
b) they are memories from his time travel experiences
c) they are favorites moments in the books he has read
d) it provides an escape from his overlay controlling wife

3. in "a sound of thunder," the author shows how small acts affect the future by

a) having eckels forced to retrieve the bullets
b) eckels stepping on a butterfly and killing it
c) eckels freezing when it's time to shoot the dinosaur
d) having eckels travel back in time instead of going on an african safari

These lines make the speaker sound urgent. This is because the words the speaker uses are intense and demanding, and they reflect a lack of patience. Moreover, the way the speaker talks makes him sound uncompromising. Therefore, the character is developed as urgent.

In "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," the main character often daydreams about fantastical situations. These dreams and vivid images that the character has are motivated by a desire to escape from his controlling and overbearing wife. Therefore, they are a symptom of his unhappiness.

In the story, Eckels travels to the past in order to hunt a dinosaur. However, things go wrong, and he accidentally alters the past by stepping on a butterfly and killing it. When he comes back to the present, everything is different. This shows how small acts can significantly alter the future.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.