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An author's choice of wording can have an impact on the mood or tone of a given piece of writing. In addition to making the writing increasingly sophisticated, word choice can cause the reader to have certain feelings or personal connections with the text.
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Answer: A) character vs. society because he is breaking laws and E) character vs. nature because his hunger is driving him to take risks.
Explanation: in literature, a conflict is a struggle between opposite forces, usually between a character (the main character or a very important one) and himself (internal conflict), society or another character (external conflict). In the given excerpt from "By the Waters of Babylon" we can see an example of two types of external conflicts: character vs. society because he is breaking laws by entering the towers looking for the food of the gods (which was forbidden), and character vs. nature because is because his hunger that he is taking such risks.
Is there any way I can see an excerpt?
The prepositional phrase is
into a cagelike crate.
He was seeking Utnapishtim, the only human being who was granted eternal life by the gods.
