Arachne is a weaver that boasts she is the best weaver in the universe and that no one can match her skills. This comes back to bite her later when she is put in a cloth making competition with Athena. Arachne, of course, loses and is turned into a spider. 
     Arachne's characterization foreshadows her fate by her being boastful. 
        
             
        
        
        
Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. He then was introduce to the countryside at a very young age thus this contact gave a lifelong fascination. Thoreau was able to study Harvard and became an individualist. In his work, My Life Has Been the Poem the answer would be b. Straightforward
        
             
        
        
        
It's an angry dispute; AKA altercation 
        
             
        
        
        
It could be 'dare' or 'donare'!