In the excerpt above, the word "gyre" can best be understood to mean a spiral.
Answer: Option C.
Explanation:
The line ‘Turning and turning in the widening gyre. The falcon cannot hear the falconer’ is from the poem ‘The Second Coming’ which is written by William Butler Yeast’s. In the poem, the word ‘gyre’ refers to spiral or vortex which means s circular or spiral motion. The poet here describes a nightmarish scene where he sees that falcon turns into a widening gyre by making use of terrifying ritualistic language. William believes that the world is closer to revelation.
<span>D.) The woman goes to the mirror dutifully, as one who dutifully worships.
Comparing the mirror to the eye of a god shows that the woman is constantly going to the mirror as one goes to church regularly. She is trying to gain some sort of heavenly insight into herself, as someone would be trying to get religious insight by worshiping. </span><span />
Answer:
The tone is informative since its giving information based on the Americans space program.
Explanation:
Answer:
Legend is based on fact and then stretched, and myth was never real to begin with.
Explanation:
1. Legend was based on some fact, until the truth was stretched so far it became just a story. A myth was never a fact to begin with.
This is significant because a legend has evidence, which may be incorrect, but a myth does not have any evidence whatsoever.
2. Legends are set in a historical period of time from a particular culture that is more recent. A myth is set in the ancient past (hence, once upon a time).
