Answer:
The repeated sounds that the poet has used in these lines to create the mood of bleak and despair is alliteration.
Explanation:
Beowulf is an epic poem written in Old English, and one of the earliest surviving text.
In lines 207-210, the poet has used the repeated sounds of alliteration to create the mood of bleak and despair.
Alliteration is a device which repeats the same consonant sound at the beginning of a word in the same sentence.
<u>The words are, in which alliterative sounds are used, 'heavy', 'heart', 'hall.'</u>
The poet creates bleak and despairing mood using these words. Bleak means cold and miserable, whereas, despairing means hopeless. Using repeatitive sounds of alliterative words, the poet manages to create this mood of coldness and hopelessness in lines 207-210.
Answer:
(Thomas Hardy, "The Convergence of the Twain") and (Sara Teasdale, "Wisdom")
Answer:
Charlie has discovered that his own intelligence will deteriorate just as quickly as Algernon’s.
Explanation:
The tone is of <u>strong disapproval.</u>
Explanation:
The passage here presents multiple instances of disapproval of Countess Olenska's behavior
- <u>the narrator calls her a compromised woman</u>, essentially, one of a loose character.
- <u>questions her going outside in the' shopping hour</u>', that is, when she has a chance of meeting men outside.
- <u>her absence when the betrothed couple comes is presented as a relief.</u> She is either ill mannered or her family is ashamed of having her around.
It is evident that the Countess here is being judged on impossible standards.
