Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain: the town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake up, a furious clatter of drays follows, every house and store pours out a human contribution, and all in a twinkling the dead town is alive and moving. how does twain use an idiom in this excerpt? a. to lend a magical quality to the sentence through the use of imagery b. to summarize the cumulative actions detailed in the sentence c. to describe how quickly the once sleepy town comes alive d. to show that everyone in the town has an important job to do

Explain how advancements in technology have affected the diversity of our news, how we receive it, and how it is portrayed by the media.

In 1808, their friend, the romantic poet clemens brentano, asked them to collect all types of folk tales so he could use them in a book of literary fairy tales. in 1810, they sent him fifty-four texts, which they fortunately copied. fortunately, because brentano then lost the manuscript in the ölenberg monastery in alsace and never used the grimms’ texts. when they realized that brentano was not going to use the tales, they decided, upon the advice of another romantic writer and mutual friend, achim von arnim, to publish their collection. it had grown to eighty-six tales, which they published in 1812, and then another seventy, which they published in 1815. –“how the grimm brothers saved the fairy tale,” jack zipes what structural technique does the writer use in this passage? the writer describes events in chronological order. the writer describes events in their order of importance. the writer provides a central idea and then lists examples. the writer shows how the grimms made mistakes and then solved them.

The following question is based on your reading of a midsummer night’s dream by william shakespeare. why are the royals in the woods? a. they are hunting. c. they are drunk. b. they are celebrating the wedding. d. they are lost.