C. There are major wars taking place over disagreements that seem like they should be minor issues.
Explanation:
- Lilliput and Blefuscu were two island nations
- They were separated by 800 yards wide channel.
- It was inhabited by tiny people around 1/12th the height of ordinary human beings.
- Ruled by emperors.
- Lilliputian emperor's grandfather ordered that all Lilliputians should break their eggs at the small end first.
- The conflict between the two empires started.
- The Blefuscudians encouraged the rebellions.
- Eleven thousand people preferred to die instead of following the law.
- The Lilliputians were accused of disobeying the religious doctrines.
- Blefuscu launched a war against Lilliput.
1. A story that is or was considered a true explanation of the natural world (and how it came to be).
<span>2. Characters are often non-human – e.g. gods, goddesses, supernatural beings, first people.
</span>3. Setting is a previous proto-world (somewhat like this one but also different)
.4. Plot may involve interplay between worlds (this world and previous or original world)
.5. Depicts events that bend or break natural laws (reflective of connection to previous world)
.6. Cosmogonic/metaphysical explanation of universe (formative of worldview).
7. Functional: “Charter for social action” – conveys how to live: assumptions, values, core meanings of individuals, families, communities.
8. Evokes the presence of Mystery, the Unknown (has a “sacred” tinge).
9. Reflective and formative of basic structures (dualities: light/dark, good/bad, being/nothingness, raw/cooked, etc.) that we must reconcile. Dualities often mediated by characters in myths.
10. Common theme: language helps order the world (cosmos); thus includes many lists, names, etc.
11. Metaphoric, narrative consideration/explanation of “ontology” (study of being). Myths seek to answer, “Why are we here?” “Who are we?” “What is our purpose?” etc. – life’s fundamental questions
.<span>12. Sometimes: the narrative aspect of a significant ritual (core narrative of most important religious practices of society; fundamentally connected to belief system; sometimes the source of rituals)</span>
Answer:
Four factors are necessary for suspense—reader empathy, reader concern, impending danger and escalating tension. We create reader empathy by giving the character a desire, wound or internal struggle that readers can identify with. The more they empathize, the closer their connection with the story will be.
I think it'd be C or in this case "i".
Answer: looking beyond appearances
Explanation: