It helps you determine how effective the speech is<span />
I would say wakes up as the phrase "come to" can mean waking up and "start" means beginning. So the phrase can mean starting to wake up, that's just my guess though.
Read outloud, honestly, you just have to be able to comprehend all the words fast.
In Donne's sonnet, the phrase "one short sleep past" means: Death, like a nap, isn't permanent. I can assure that option D is correct.
In fact, the lines after that mentioned in the questions are: we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
Which confirms that for the author, the death is not permanent or eternal, on the contray, life is, so we will wake eternal and death would die.
The correct answer is B.
The story of Rip Van Winkle contains exaggerated characters such as the townspeople. Mysterious events such as when Rip is in the woods and thinks he can hear his name being called but only sees a crow while trying to see who it is. Also the remote setting helps the story to achieve more mystery and incorporate some aspects of witchcraft.