The themes of Ibsen's “A Doll's House” which are reflected in the above excerpt from Act 1 of the play are:
Obedience and control
the importance of money
In the first act of “A Doll's House,” Henry Ibsen introduces the main characters of the play and gives a gist of their attitude towards things. Nora has been presented as a housewife who wants to give all the pleasures to her family and herself but is unable to do so because of the lack of money. She feels very excited to buy presents for her children and for the family during Christmas. Though they lack money, still she buys things through credit. Her husband Torvald asks her not to spend too much and calls her a spendthrift.
“La Belle Dame sans Merci” is one of the famous ballads of John Keats. A ballad is in a form of poetry which tells a story based on folk cultures, believes or ideas. Ballads usually use simple language so that it can reach to the common people. The translation of the title is “A Woman Without Mercy.” the ballad begins with a knight telling his experience with a beautiful and fair lady who gave him sweet feelings of love. The lady turns him to fall asleep. In his dreams, he visualizes the reality of the lady that how she has seduced other knights and then they have been found dead.
The poem has been divided into twelve four lines of stanzas which are known as quatrains. The rhyme scheme of each of the quatrain is ABCB.
The poem is in iambic tetrameter. One Iamb is when an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable and tetra means four. That is, each line of the ballad contains four iambs. But there are only three stressed syllables in the fourth line of each quatrain. The use of rhyme and meter enhances the poem's beauty.
Part A
Helen Keller's word choice in her description of her lessons with her teacher help to reveal that she is a very detail-oriented person. Being blind and deaf, she only had the sense of touch, smell, and taste, all of which are not very easy to receive information through. The way Helen Keller was able to describe the world around her was with the feelings and the smells of the earth, and this tells us how happy she is to pay her mind to these details. (I wrote this without knowing it was multiple choice, but yeah the answer is B.)
Part B
The word choice in the second and third paragraphs help to develop the idea presented in Part A? The answer is C.
The correct answer is:
A. Jerry looks ill today.
Explanation:
A predicate adjective is used to describe, or modify the subject, and comes right after the linking verb, which is used to connect the subject with the predicate adjective (the word that describes the subject).
- ill: predicate adjective.
Option B cannot be correct because it doesn't contain an adjective, disdainfully is an adverb (it modifies the verb not the subject).
Option C and D are incorrect because they contain prepositional phrases, "at the map", "into the microscope"; they start with a preposition and end with a noun, both phrases describe what the subject is looking instead of modifying the subject.