Answer:
A
Explanation:
The other answers weaken the sentence or do not make sense in that context.
The poet, Yeats, is describing the daily routing of an old mother. He presents his ideas in a poem describing how she completes those activities. He is descring the old woman as hardworking and tired, and he presents these ideas in the last line, where it says that she must work because she is old and the seed of the fire (a lantern most likely representing her life or her day) gets feeble and cold (it ends). In essence, the author describes the old woman as harworking and tired, and at the end of the day, the "fire," or the Sun, grows feeble and cold, signifying that the day is ending and the cycle will begin again tomorrow.
Another synonym for torrid is sweltering, because the definition for torrid is hot.
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
<span>- Atticus Finch” </span>
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― </span>Harper Lee<span>, </span><span>To Kill a Mockingbird
</span>“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”
<span>― </span>Harper Lee<span>, </span><span>To Kill a Mockingbird
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“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
<span>― </span>Harper Lee<span>, </span><span>To Kill a Mockingbird</span>
