Answer: To illustrate Japan's isolation in the 1800s.
Explanation: The outside source in this excerpt (the first few lines) clearly describes how while the rest of the world was dealing with monarchies, wars and developing new technologies like trains and wheels, Japan decided to be totally closed off from all of that, and they concentrated just in painting screens for 200 years.
Answer:
Pretty sure its A
Explanation:
Based on my knowledge of the English language. ;-;
Answer:
The fickleness of fortune
Explanation:
I don’t have prior knowledge to the store but we can predict that something incredible and potentially bad has happened due to the way the writer described how the character said his words and the part that says “as I wished it twisted my hand like a snake”
Answer:
Lines 1 only
Explanation:
Personification: Giving human attributes to something non human.
Line 1: "And felt the <u>breath</u> of the morning breeze"
It gives human characteristics by saying that the morning breeze (nonhuman) breathes (human)