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Wherever the crime novels of P.D. James are discussed by critics, there is a tendency on the one hand to <u><em>exaggerate</em></u> her merits and on the other to <u><em>castigate</em></u> her as a genre writer who is getting above herself. Perhaps underlying the debate is that familiar, false opposition set up between different kinds of fiction, according to which<u><em> enjoyable</em></u> novels are held to be somehow slightly lowbrow, and a novel is not considered true literature unless it is a tiny bit dull.
Explanation:
P. D. James (Phyllis Dorothy James) was an English Crime writer born on 3 August 1920. She is famously known for her series of detective novels including police commander and the poet Adam Dalgliesh.
Answer:
When the albatross appears, the ice splits so that the ship can move forward, and a good wind appears, hastening its progress
Explanation:
In the beginning of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the albatross leads the ship out of the freezing waters of the Antartic. However, after the mariner shoots it, the extreme anger of spirits takes the ship into unexplored waters and it is left unable to move.
The servants do not "abscond" because Montresor tells them to stay at home; they do so because he tells them he will be gone all night. They don't care if he finds out that they all left to join in the carnival. He can't fire them because he can't get anybody to replace them.
The answer is C., in contrast, comparing common things of similarity and also differences.
