Which is the best example of paraphrasing for the following
passage?
1- I seem sixty and married,
but these effects are due to
my condition and sufferings,
for I am a bachelor, and only
forty-one. It will be hard for
you to believe that I, who am
now but a shadow, was a
hale, hearty man two short
years ago, a man of iron, a
very athlete!-
A. Even though I look like an older and
weak married man, two years ago I looked
younger and strong.
B. I was older and weaker when I was a
bachelor.
C. I look like I am sixty and married but I
am really older than that! I take care of
myself well!

In ralph ellison’s “the black ball” the narrator of the story stretches the truth or lies several times what do you think it is his motivation for being so untruthful

At last it was settled by lot that zeus should reign supreme in heaven, whilst aides governed the lower world, and poseidon had full command over the sea, but the supremacy of zeus was recognized in all three kingdoms, in heaven, on earth (in which of course the sea was included), and under the earth. zeus held his court on the top of mount olympus, whose summit was beyond the clouds; the dominions of aides were the gloomy unknown regions below the earth; and poseidon reigned over the sea. what element of a myth does this excerpt contain? an example of an historical event a lesson about human behavior an explanation of an event in nature a story about gods or goddesses

Thomas paine's common sense convicted colonists to