Read this passage from dostoyevsky's novella notes from the underground
but do you know, gentlemen, what was the chief point
about my spite? why, the whole point, the real sting of it lay
in the fact that continually, even in the moment of the
acutest spleen, i was inwardly conscious with shame that
was not only not a spiteful but not even an embittered
man, that i was simply scaring sparrows at random and
amusing myself by it.
in what way is the narrator most clearly a monster?
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a. he is straightforward about his spite.
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b. he gives advice, even when not asked for it
c. he is ashamed, even though he has no reason to be.
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d. he is intentionally cruel for no reason

What is the central idea of this excerpt?

Review the passage from “the listeners.” for he suddenly smote on the door, even louder, and lifted his head: — "tell them i came, and no one answered, that i kept my word," he said. based on this passage, what is the best inference about the man?

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile