Which best reflects the central message of “the second coming”?
a.
in world history, a cycle of order follows a cycle of chaos.
b.
society is doomed to revert to its barbaric origins.
c.
humanity is powerless to do anything against the forces of time and nature.
d.
a dark future is foreshadowed by the violence of the present.

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. but the man skilled in all ways of contending, satisfied by the great bow's look and heft, like a musician, like a harper, when with quiet hand upon his instrument he draws between his thumb and forefinger a sweet new string upon a peg: so effortlessly odysseus in one motion strung the bow. according to this excerpt, how has odysseus changed over the course of his adventure?

Which example is presented in chronological

4.in those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. •type of figurative language: •meaning of figurative language: •effect on tone and mood: •effect on audience: choose out of these: hyperbole, irony, historical question, paradox, allusion, metaphor, personification, symbolism and simile