Which characteristic is not true of epics?
a. the stories are usually very longb. the values of the culture are reflected in the stories events.
c. the hero must travel on an adventure to an unknown place.
d. the hero is usually an outsider who starts out as an underdog.

Describe the character of sissy jupe, from hard times, by charles dickens, in four sentences. use anaphora and one metaphor in your description.

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

According to the study, what made jonathan swift distrust the assumption most english people of his era made about the superiority of their own race and culture?