My design leads me to speak of forms changed into new bodies. ye gods, (for you it was who changed them,) favor my attempts, and bring down the lengthened narrative from the very beginning of the world, even to my own times. [ovid, metamorphoses] one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible insect. he lay on his armor-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. [kafka, metamorphosis] these two authors, separated by almost 2000 years, begin their works in very different ways. aside from the fact that ovid speaks in the first person, what is the most significant difference in these excerpts? a) ovid seems to fear and despise transformation. b) kafka is less descriptive than ovid. c) ovid's says the gods caused the transformations he will describe. d) kafka blames the gods for samsa's transformation.

Read the passage from a vindication of the rights of woman. that the society is formed in the wisest manner, whose constitution is founded on the nature of man, strikes, in the abstract, every thinking being so forcibly, that it looks like presumption to endeavour to bring forward proofs; though proof must be brought, or the strong hold of prescription will never be forced by reason; yet to urge prescription as an argument to justify the depriving men (or women) of their natural rights, is one of the absurd sophisms which daily insult common sense. does wollstonecraft maintain an objective tone in the passage? yes, because she uses objective language such as “society is formed in the wisest manner.” yes, because she uses objective language such as “it looks like presumption to endeavor.” no, because she uses subjective language such as “though proof must be brought, or the strong hold.” no, because she uses subjective language such as “absurd sophisms which daily insult common sense.”