How does the last sentence of this excerpt from H. G. Wells's The Time Machine affect the reader? As I stood there in the gathering dark I thought that in this simple explanation I had mastered the problem of the world-masi
whole secret of these delicious people. Possibly the checks they had devised for the increase of population hadsucceeded too
their numbers had rather diminished than kept stationary. That would account for the abandoned ruins. Very simple was my
and plausible enough- as most wrong theories are!
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It encourages readers to always look for the simplest explanation.
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It makes the reader aware that the Time Traveller will probably meet a tragic end.
It hints to the reader that unexpected changes in the Time Traveller's view may follow.
It enables the reader to identify the Time Traveller's motives for traveling to the future.
It makes the reader aware of the possibility that the Time Traveller may be lying,
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Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet

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Which sentence uses the persive voice a) john searched for a yote b) the rain coninued und down, c) lies destroy iriendship d) the tree was planted by mary