10 POINTS PLZ HELP ASAP What is a universal symbol in literature?
A. something that reminds readers of events from a historical era
B. something that most people understand to symbolize the same thing
C. something that suggests a connection to outer space or space travel
D. something that seems familiar because of the way it is described

Write a précis of "from 'on the duty of civil disobedience'" paragraph 1 by henry david thoreau.

Read the passage. and thus they fought all the long day, and never stinted till the noble knights were laid to the cold earth. and ever they fought still till it was near night, and by then was there a hundred thousand laid dead upon the down. in the passage from morte d’arthur by sir thomas malory, what are the bolded words an example of?

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.