CLUES MULTIPLE MEANINGS
3. Read the sentence in the box. Then choose
the sentence in which the underlined
words are used in the same way.
There's gold, and it's haunting and haunting;
It's luring me on as of old.

Time is not always change. time can also mean continuity, and it can mean keeping acknowledged truths in mind despite differences in circumstances. there is no better example of this in things fall apart than the retellings of the proverb about the bird named eneke, the language in both retellings is almost identical despite the length of time that has passed between their repetitions. in comparing the usages of the same proverb, achebe allows his readers to note the similarities and differences between the situations, and he them understand how this story can be applied to their own lives.

"ten from the sea to the sand he walks, to look in the soil, but not in the box''!

When a progressive tense is used in the independent clause, the dependent clause typically uses the tense.