The answer is A. Infancy.
In "All the World's a Stage" Shakespeare writes about how when one becomes old, the man's strong voice suddenly becomes weak and similar to that of a child.
Answer:
good good good good good good
When you compress something you are pushing it into a smaller space. When something contracts, it gets smaller. An example of contraction is when the volume of a mass of water gets smaller as it cools.
Answer:
C
Explanation:
Being that they were unnoticed, sounds like it's not a major key detail.
Even though option D is also related to Modernism and could be related to the excerpt, option C seems to be the correct one: It conveys the idea of isolation from modern life.
Modernist were called "the lost generation" because of their search for meaning among the fragments of modern life. In the excerpt, the words "lonely men" seem to address the theme of isolation and alienation in society. While everyone seems to have a role to perform in modern life, that does not mean they have found their true identity. Some sort of value seems to have been lost and, with it, men lost themselves. Modernism is characterized by the search of such value.