Which best describes the setting of "rip van winkle"?
the city of new york in the eighteenth century
a village in the american west
a village and surrounding countryside in new york
the rocky mountains in the nineteenth century

The literature of nineteenth-century realism depicted everyday life in a realistic way. which statements show that leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich is a realist text? the description of human struggles in the form of ivan ilyich’s suffering the faithfulness of relationships that ivan ilyich experiences toward the end of his life the romantic tension that occurs between ivan ilyich and his wife the difference between superficial and authentic living the plot ending with a surprising turn of events

Write an objective summary of the piece by restating the central ideas in your own words.(from nature by ralph waldo emerson.)

Which pair of uses of figurative language from “the caged bird” support the extended metaphor of freedom versus oppression? back of the wind; floats downstream his wings are clipped; his feet are tied the caged bird sings; the free bird thinks dawn bright lawn; grave of dreams