The answer is D because each story involves the topic of knowledge and good doesn't overcome wickedness in each story. Choices A and C doesn't even relate to any story listed. Therefore, D is the best answer.
Narrator feels saddened because "A flow of disappoint rushed across my mind." The creature felt amused because "He came straight up to me and laughed into my eyes."
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Enjambment - the sentences do not finish with the end of the line.
Simile - "like a slackened drum"
Maybe even hyperbole, since it is an exaggeration.
Answer:
number
Explanation:
the definitions for quantity are "The amount or number of a material or immaterial thing not usually estimated by spatial measurement. The perceived length of a vowel sound or syllable."