Malicious: full of evil because evil + full of = full of evil meaning full of hatred or dislike.
William Cullen Bryant wants to show with this lovely poem ”Thanatopsis “ which means view on the death in Greek, that death is nothing to be feared. It is the natural thing that we all can die today or tomorrow and we could live with the assurance that we will meet the ones who went before us.
The three lines which best indicate this theme are:
<u><em>Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
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<u><em>Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
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<u><em>By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
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Answer:
A. But instead of obeying, Jonah found a ship going to Tarshish.
Explanation:
Suspense is the state of mental uncertainty, when the listener or readers have no idea of what will happen in the next scenes. This literary technique provides a feeling of 'thrill', a want, an eagerness to see what will enfold in the next scenes.
The given choices in the question shows how Jonah had tried to deceive God in His orders of going to preach to the people of Nineveh. The feeling of suspense can be best seen in the sentence where he disobeyed God and boarded a ship bound for Tarshish, a city in the opposite side of Nineveh. The suspense is created when he disobeyed and went in the opposite way, trying to run away from his work.
noun: a rigid piece of wood. i think that makes the most sense