Answer:
4. Literature should portray reality.
Explanation:
<em>Spoon River Anthology</em> is a collection of short free-verse poems written by Edgar Lee Masters. These poems tell about the lives of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town.
The author of the passage you were given is saying that literature should portray reality. They state that that Masters' characterization of businessmen fails because it is not realistic. Based on that, we can conclude that they believe that it would be better if it were more realistic. That doesn't mean that Masters' books can't be considered literature or that the businessmen are not interesting. Besides that, they don't mention historical events, which makes the third statement incorrect as well.
This is why the fourth option is the correct one.
Three ways the narrators captors attempt to kill him in "the pit and the pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe are: 1.Is falling into a pit 2. Is the pendulum way 3. Was setting his chamber on fire but eventually, the narrator managed to make the rats eat the ropes, freed himself from the bond, and run away from the tortutre chamber
The line that shows the value of the match its the second one "…it was a long, long time before they learned how to kindle one easily". The match allows humankind to handle fire easily.
A sentence with the word niches could be:
"They were trying to find their respective niches so as to be better at their jobs"
It means that they were trying to find an appropriate position for a person.
A character that does not change in the course of a story is called a static character