Life in itself is nothing, an empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. it is not enough that yearly, down this hill, april comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. which best describes the effect of personification on the overall meaning in this excerpt?

Which sentence would not be appropriate for an essay or formal speech? a) most of the titles of faulkner's novels are references to the bible or to the works of william shakespeare. eliminate b) some critics believe that faulkner's novel the sound and the fury is the best novel of his entire career. c) the novels of william faulkner are way too hard to read, yo, filled with all these frustrating changing narrators! d) william faulkner traveled all the way from his home state of mississippi to sweden in order to make his nobel prize acceptance speech.

Which excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich reflects the author's opinion that the members of the medical profession don't really care about their patients?

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.