Answer: A. Felt that their efforts were not successful.
Explanation: In the given excerpt from "A Rumor of War" we can see the description of how the soldiers felt discouraged because they discovered that the men they had scorned as peasant guerrillas were a lethal enemy. From the given options, the one that best expresses the fellings of the soldiers about the discovery and the situation, is the corresponding to option A, they felt that their efforts were not successful, and that broke their confidence.
Answer:
-al
Explanation:
The suffix "-al" is often used to pass along the idea of <em>"Like"</em> or <em>"Suitable for"</em>.
You can see that in words like: <em>Spacial</em>, which is most likely <em>"Suitable for Space"</em> (Spacial Awareness, for example) and Optional, which is something that <em>"fits an Option"</em> (as in, something that will not be mandatory).
This is a short modernist fiction that celebrates the life of the imagination, and points to its shortcomings. As a narrator, Woolf was in the habit of thinking aloud and talking to herself, as well as to her imaginary readers. Here she takes the process one stage further by ‘talking’ to her own fictional creations.
She also shows the process of the artistic imagination at work, raising doubts about its own creations, asking questions, and posing alternative interpretations. She even develops lines of narrative then backtracks on them as improbable or cancels them as invalid, mistaken interpretation, or rejects them as inadequate.
In other words, the very erratic process of ratiocination – all the uncertainties, mistakes, hesitations – are reproduced as part of her narrative. She even addresses her own subject, silently, from within the fictional frame, and reflects on fictional creations which ‘die’ because they are rejected as unacceptable:
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