Read the following sentence from john gardner's grendeh
i understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical
chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose
our hopes and fears (22).
which statement best describes the impact the underlined description has on
the meaning of this sentence?
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a. the word choice is used to express someone's search for
meaning
b. the tone creates a sense of hostility between grendel and the
reader
c. these figurative expressions convey a mechanical, unemotional
world
d. the word choice conveys a negative and hopeless view of the
world
o