Read the following excerpt from the decameron and answer the question. " and whereas they had been wont to say that gualtieri had shown some lack of discretion in taking [griselda] as his wife, they now regarded him as the most discerning man on earth. for no one apart from gualtieri could ever have perceived the noble qualities that lay concealed beneath her ragged and rustic attire. (p. 787)" of the following interpretations, which is an explicit meaning in this passage? a) griselda's virtue surpasses her husband's. b) gaultieri is unaware how fortunate he is to be married to griselda. c) gualtieri's vassals sympathize with griselda's sufferings. d) the vassals believe gualtieri must be unusally discerning to have recognized griselda's outstanding virtues.

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Which most closely analyzes the information about briony's dreams of becoming an olympic athlete?

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification