20 points! brainlisted! in this excerpt from section xviii of the way to rainy mountain, the author describes his relationship to the space around him: you could see far and wide even at night, by the light of the moon; there was nothing to stand in your way. and when the season turned and it was necessary to move back into the house, there was a sense of confinement and depression for a time. what does this description convey about the author? he suffers from depression when he is at rainy mountain. he feels tied to the land and to the weather in which he grew up. he feels confined by the space all around him. he knows that summer is only an illusion.

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

5read the following sentence from kennedy's inaugural speech.and so, my fellow americans, ask not what your countfor you; ask what you can do for your country.ot what your country can dothis sentence is an example of an antimetabole, a rhetorical device in whichthe speaker reverses the order of repeated words. antimetabole is used toplace added emphasis on the final part of the statement. which of thefollowing is also an example of antimetabole? a"this nation, for all its hopes and boasts, will not be fully free until itscitizens are free." – john f. kennedy, 1963"forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."- john f. kennedy, quoted in 1984 by ed kochc"mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."- john f. kennedy, 1961d"a man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."- john f. kennedy, 1962

Realism was a fairly influential and widespread literary movement in the united states in the latter half of the nineteenth century. which american writer is among the pioneers of american realism? a. ernest hemingway b. f. scott fitzgerald c. j. d. salinger d. mark twain