1) yes
2) yes
3) yes
4) yes
5) yes
6) yes
I'm a bit unsure of 2 and 3, but I hope this helps!
Epic poems were memorized and then presented to an audience orally. This was required since the vast majority of people during that time period were illiterate. It is theorized that the repetitive structure and recurring syllables present in the epics, were used by storytellers to aid in memorization.
a terrible head wound he suffered in battle
The statement that best describes the primary conflict that the narrator experiences in this passage is the second one: "The conflict is character vs. nature, since the narrator encounters a dog that presents a danger to him".
In this excerpt, the narrator tells the reader that the dog, which looked like a big wolf, was a menace to him. <u>This is made even clearer in the sentence "He was not afraid of me; he looked at me as if I were meat"</u>. John, the main character of "By the Waters of Babylon", is forced to deal with the man vs. nature conflict several times throughout the story. <u>During his journey to the Place of the Gods, he protects himself from predators that are part of nature on different occasions</u>.
The title and the image create a shocking mood, they make you curious and want to know what happened, it gives you the “on the edge of your seat” feeling.
