Thanksgiving is a day everyone gives thanks for when the native Indians helped the Europeans. Labor Day is being grateful for our American soldiers.
Something like that.
The vES ending should be added to nouns that end in -f or -fe in their singular form. In that case, the -f or -fe is removed and -ves is added as a plural ending. Examples include: life - lives, wife - wives, knife - knives, wolf - wolves, leaf - leaves. But there are also exceptions, such as belief - beliefs, cliff - cliffs, roof - roofs.
"Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid" is an example of <em>D. personification.</em>
Personification is a literary device in which animals, objects or ideas are given human attributes. In this case, sorrow is given the ability to knock at someone's door, but as we know it is only a figure of speech because sorrow cannot knock at the door.
The writer's world is another way of saying; "The scene that is being set for the story to be told. Time, Location, Characters, Mood, Situation, etc.
For example, If you were telling a story about Dungeons and Dragons, perhaps you would mention that the main characters, Corlon, a Fighter and Esmerelda, a Sorceress are Trapped in a Dragon's Cave guarded by a Large one-eyed Cyclops and a Very Large Hungry Green Dragon. And so on.
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