Ea called on marduk, a great warrior god, saying that if marduk should be victorious, he would be the lord of all the gods. a great battle ensued, with gods raging against each other. marduk reached tiamat, the embodiment of chaos, and smashed her head with his great club. he sliced her in half, making the north wind bear her pieces away. from each half of her ribs he created the vault of the heavens and the earth. her weeping eyes became sacred rivers, and tiamat was no more.
what is the purpose of this passage from the myth?
a. to explain how the first humans came to exist on earth
b. to explain how the heavens, earth, and rivers were created
c. to explain how humans should act toward one another

Read the excerpt from twelfth night, by william shakespeare. if music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. that strain again! it had a dying fall: o, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour! now read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." for i have known them all already, known them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, i have measured out my life with coffee spoons; i know the voices dying with a dying fall beneath the music from a farther room. what does the phrase “dying fall” most likely mean in both excerpts? the noise is jarring. the noise is soothing. the sounds are fading. the sounds are too loud. mark this and return

Is the group of words a simple sentence, a compound sentence, or a run-on sentence? jan went on a quiz show, won two hundred dollars, and bought gifts for her family. a. run-on sentence b. compound sentence c. simple sentence

In the farewell speech, queen elizabeth's use of first-person point of view her to appear to be impartial and objective, prevents her from addressing the audience directly allows her to share her personal thoughts and ideas. makes it seem as though she's observing from the outside.