To describe trying to hold sand, Edgar Allan Poe uses these pair of rhyming words:
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! Yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep.
The author is describing his lost of hope "In a night, or in a day / In a vision, or in none". He is talking about a goodbye, a sad moment where he feels the loss of his illusion, like grains of sand falling from his hands, falling deep while he weeps, he cries of sadness for the goodbye.
Answer:
This is an excerpt from Henry David Thoreau’s seminal essay “Civil Disobedience.
He is of the opinion that casting your vote is not the end of the democratic process. He is advocating civil disobedience and a participatory democracy.
Furthermore, although your vote might be overwhelmed by the majority, you still have a moral obligation to ensure a better leadership. It must exceed just the ballot
Answer:
a) Both myths use personification to explain the changes in seasons.
Explanation:
Personification is when you give human characteristics to inanimate objects or things.
'The sleeping sun awakes' is an example of personification in the first myth.
The sun is shown as a human being here.
'Some of the trees went to sleep' is an example of personification in the second myth. The trees are shown as human beings in it.
Both myths refer to the changes in seasons, so the correct option would be A.
