O. Henry chooses specific words and phrases to point to the story’s historical setting. Reread paragraphs 19–20. Which phrases give a sense of the story’s time and place?

Telling about the scarce of money with the federal debt because of the earthquake of San Francisco tells the readers about the idea that the story is of the 1900s time in New York.

Explanation:

The gift of the magi is one of the most famous stories written by O. Henry. O. Henry did not allude to the historical period in a direct way in this story and the reason for this is that the relation ship between many of the characters in the story is timeless.

But the readers get a hint about the time and the place of the story that it is in New York and of the time period in 1900s because that was the time when money was scare with the federal debt because of the San Francisco earthquake.

i'm pretty sure you can use the word uproar

gilgamesh is an epic hero from birth, as he's brought to the world by the hand of several gods who shaped him with the goal of saving humanity. there's a passage from the text that reads "the glorious sun shamash bestowed upon him glory; adad the terrible god of storms bestowed upon him courage. the great gods perfected his magnificence beyond all others, terrible like the great wild bull". this is a great example that show some of the super-human qualities that the gods gave gilgamesh upon his birth.

as gilgamesh grows he has to face many challenges that put his heroism to task. the courage he displays along the way, prove that he's ready to live up to the godly qualities brought upon him. at one point he has to overcome a wild beast by the name of hubamba "whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death", as the text reads. the actions taken by gilgamesh, beating the beast with the use of his super-human force, examplify why he shoud be thought of as an epic hero.

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