Because conflict makes a story interesting. Nobody wants to hear a boring story about how somebody went to the store and bought tomatoes because that's an every day thing you don't need to hear about this because chances are you have done it. So authors use conflict to keep you on the edge of your seat. Some are better at this than others. There are different types of conflict man vs man man vs nature man v self man vs society. But these conflicts are the basis for almost every interesting story written
The correct answer would be options A and B, of the excerpt.
Option C is the correct answer.
The weary employees dreaded the long, boring meetings.
There are two adjectives, which need a comma in between them.
(Clarification)
The skeleton of the sentence is:
(subject)(predicate)(direct object)
(employees)(dreaded)(meetings)
In this sentence, the words "long, boring" modify the direct object "meetings".
Since there are two adjectives, they need a comma to separate them.
Hope this helps!
He gave a cursory look at my artwork and told me that there was a dearth of evidence that I did this myself.
The correct answer is "influence." To explore the influence, or effect of mythical literature on contemporary literature, a reader should identify key characters, settings, and plots.