What can a reader infer about hemingway’s writing philosophy from the following text?
ernest hemingway’s spare style was markedly different from the elaborate prose that short-story writers and novelists had often used in the 1800s. through understatement and irony, hemingway’s fiction suggests connections that the reader is left to infer. “i always try to write on the principle of the iceberg,” he said. “there is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.”

The travels of marco polo. what is the author’s purpose for writing this text?

How does this excerpt develop the central idea that espionage during the civil war was often carried out by untrained citizens? it enhances the reader’s understanding by explaining why training was unnecessary. it changes the reader’s perception of what information a spy was able to obtain. it explains an ordinary person’s motivation for conducting espionage against the enemy. it adds moral complexity to espionage, due to the use of secret and dangerous methods.

Match the term to the correct example. 1. allusion juliet: else would i tear the cave where echo lies, / and make her airy tongue more hoarse than 2. imagery chorus: that fair for which love groan’d for and would die, / with tender juliet match’d, is now not fair. 3. personification friar laurence: therefore love moderately; long love doth so; / too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. 4. foreshadowing romeo: the brightness of her cheek would shame those stars / as daylight doth a lamp.