Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

hedda: no matter—i could not bear the idea that any one should throw you into the shade. tesman. [in an outburst of mingled doubt and joy.] hedda! oh, is this true? but—but—i never knew you show your love like that before. fancy that! (hedda gabler; act 4, p. 129)

to what does hedda compare lovborg with the metaphor in her dialogue with tesman?

In twelve years a slave, solomon northup infers that which of the following characters ends up as a criminal? clemens ray burch john williams robert

In hard times by charles dickens, the scene in which the characters discuss the depiction of horses on wallpaper and flowers on carpets is the author’s way of showing the absurdity of

With crack on crack of thunder, zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. they came up 'round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. no more seafaring homeward for these, no sweet day of return; the god had turned his face from them. –the odyssey, homer read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.