What’s the excerpt? We need context.
Question 1 - both are overly greedy
question 2 - the author made the James character somewhat of a hoarder
Answer:
idiom.
Explanation:
The phrase to smell a rat is an idiom that dates back to the 1500s. To smell a rat means to become suspicious that something in a given situation is not quite right, to believe that someone is attempting to trick you or that the circumstances are not quite right.
Pre-Columbian = pre-1492
Age of Exploration = 15th century - 18th century
Colonial Era = 16th century - 20th century
Revolutionary Period = 1764-1789
Answer: E) Death is a dignitary who when he comes announces is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him.
Explanation:
Personification is a type of figurative language in which human traits are given to something that is not human. Objects are given emotions, desires, speech, gestures, etc.
In <em>An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge</em>, Ambrose Bierce gives human qualities to death. In this excerpt, death performs the action of announcing, and is referred to as 'he'. Death is personified as a <em>dignitary</em> - someone who receives respect.