What is the significance of the omniscient narration in "the open boat" by stephen crane?
a.
the omniscient narrator's overview of all the characters provides a foreshadowing of the ending.
b.
the detached perspective of the omniscient narrator emphasizes nature's indifference toward humans.
c.
the omniscient narrator's reverent tone toward the sea indicates that nature is more important than man.
d.
the omniscient narrator's compassionate tone toward the characters shows respect for human endurance.

3. what is the purpose of a lead sentence or paragraph? to display your most convincing reasons and arguments to you revise the overall structure of your work to interest readers and introduce your writing style to add details and elaborate on your ideas

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.

In virginia woolf's essay "a room of one's own," she creates a fictional sister of william shakespeare, whom she names "judith." what challenges does woolf claim this character would have experienced in her lifetime? why does woolf believe that elizabethan women did not write?