It means that the artist is having a hard time emotionally. He's in pain.
<span>Not physical pain but emotional pain. He's struggling emotionally with his craft.</span>
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3. If you want to go on the field trip. - correct answer
8. My dad .... - correct answer
9. Sighing contentedly - correct answer
14. The man who sat beside me at lunch, speaks French. A is correct answer.
15. The giggling baby - correct answer
The excerpts that function and can be characterized more accurately as expository texts are the first three excerpts: Excerpt 1, Excerpt 2 and Excerpt 3. These excerpts are centered around the communication of knowledge, of information which the reader may not have. They are exposing these 'new' information with short and regular sentences that strive to be as clear as possible. It can be discussed if the Excerpt 5, taken from Charles Dickens' <em>Great Expectations</em>, is an expository text, seeing as it has a very nuanced description; but it would be more precise to consider that excerpt as a descriptive text, as a type of text related to narrative fiction.
