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The correct definition of the word derided based on the context of the given line above from James Joyce's "Araby" is "mocked". The word deride comes from the Latin word "deridere" meaning to scoff at. Other words that are synonymous to the word "deride" are to ridicule, to make fun of, and to laugh at.
The correct
answer here would be D. The epics are long narrative poems which tell grand tales
of the legendary heroes and their lives. Pope’s R.ape of the Lock is a mock-epic. This
is a type of a poem which represents a minor, maybe even a banal event as
something from an epic or a legend. The line “Fear the just gods, and think of
Scylla’s fate!” is really out of place in a poem about the theft of a lock of
hair. The man infatuated by a woman without her permission cuts of a lock of her
hair which leads to the animosity between two families.
Gideon heard a man telling his friend about a dream. The man said that he dreamed of barley bread rolled into the camp of Midian and it hit the tent so hard that the tent turned over and fell. The man's friend then responded saying the dream was about the sword of Gideon son of Joash and that God would hand him Midian and the whole army.
