Which sentence does not contain any errors in punctuation or capitalization?

a. the curious child asked "why? "
b. the curious child asked "why? "
c. the curious child asked, "why? "< -?
d. the curious child asked, "why"?

But one hundred years later, the negro still is not free. one hundred years later, the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. one hundred years later, the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. one hundred years later, the negro is still languishing in the corners of american society and finds himself an exile in his own land. so we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. in paragraph 3, which rhetorical technique is being used to add emphasis? a) overstatement b) understatement c) parallel structure d) rhetorical question

Is "words dying" personification? !

What else do you think experts can learn from studying the language of written work? what do you think is the value of studying the language of william shakespeare whose writing is over hundreds of years old?