Read the following selection about an officer with a wounded right arm. Then, answer the questions that follow.
The officer had, of course, been compelled to take his sword into his left
hand. He did not hold it by the hilt. He gripped it at the middle of the blade,
awkwardly. . Finally he tried to sheathe it. To sheathe a sword held by the
lett hand, at the middle of the blade, in a
scabbard hung at the left hip, is a
teat worthy of a sawdust ring. This wounded officer engaged in a desperate
struggle with the sword and the wobbling scabbard, and breathed like a
wrestler.
1. How accurately does this passage portray real life? Explain.
2. What details make the wounded man's character seem realistic?
3. How does this passage reflect the idea of Naturalism?
4. How is writing such as this a reaction against Romanticism?​

Read this excerpt from "ain't i a woman? " by sojoumer truth in which three sentences does she make an emotional appeal to the audience by talking about her personal hardships? well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. {i think that 'twixt the negroes of the south and the women at the north, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.} but what's all this here talking about? {that man over there says that women need to be into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. nobody ever me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place} and ain't i a woman? look at me! look at my arm! {i have ploughed and planted, and gathered into bars, and no man could head me! } and ain't i a woman? i could work as much and eat as much as a man - when i could get it - and bear the lash as well! and ain't i a woman? {i have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when i cried out with my mother's grief, none but jesus heard me! } and ain't i a woman? {then they talk about this thing in the head, what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect") that's it, honey.} what's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? if my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?

Auden's musée des beaux arts" and williams's "landscape with the fall oficarus" share which common element?

What is rand's reason for including the ra. pe scene?   how does the event change both roark and dominique?   discuss how current attitudes on relations between the se. xes have changed since the publication of the fountainhead.