Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this story. Read the excerpt from “The Black Cat.” I took from my waistcoat-pocket a pen- knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket! I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the d*mnable atrocity. How does the first-person point of view affect the meaning of the text? Readers get an inside perspective on how the narrator feels about all of his pets. Readers learn the narrator's excuse for his cruel behavior. Readers learn about the narrator's behavior, but not his emotions. Readers gain insight into the narrator's shame after he cuts the cat’s eye 50 pts

In "the fish," elizabeth bishop uses simile and metaphor to develop tone. select one simile and one metaphor from the poem, and explain how each example contributes to the tone of the text. be sure to use specific examples from the text in your response.

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

What is the author's purpose in both patrick henry's speech and thomas paines common sense