Answer:
Grudging, Halfhearted, tepid, uninterested, spiritless etc.
Explanation:
Wholehearted means passionate and hearty, The opposite of those are negative like the ones above. Grudging, halfhearted etc. Anything that is opposite of positive and motivation, that is a antonym of wholehearted.
Fish is a noun,
pastimes is a noun
oldest is an adjective
A vassal pledges his life t a lord and in return has to give the lord land whenever he pleases.
Answer:
"They heard!–they suspected!– they knew!– they were making a mockery of my horror!– this I thought, and this I think.
Explanation:
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe. The story is about an unnamed narrator who has murdered an old man and is trying to hide his crime from the police.
The line from the text, that tells that the narrator is convinced that the police has heard his heartbeat is,
<em>"They heard!–they suspected!– they knew!– they were making a mockery of my horror!– this I thought, and this I think."</em>
In this line, the narrator is thinking that the police has suspected him and heard his heartbeat which is beating louder as he has comitted a crime.
Answer:
The bird 'ibis' is symbolic in the story as it parallels with the life Doodle.
Explanation:
"The Scarlet Ibis" is a short story written by James Hurst. The story is about two brothers– Brother and Doodle.
In the story, a red bird named Ibis is carried by the storm in North America, where the brothers were. Ibis is symbolic in the story as it parallels with the life of Doodle. As ibis was forced by a force outside of it just like Doodle. The death of ibis foreshadows the death of Doodle. Just as ibis was carried by storm, Doodle was also resulted from the storm. Just as ibis's wings mangled, it could not fly and fall on the ground and died. This parallels again with Doodle, who falls again and again because of his limbs.
