Answer:
sphinx-like smile means a mysterious smile
From what I could find, Sirens are asking for help. The song they sing is a cry for help. They are described as acting/singing like a "damsels in distress".
Answer:
1. I took the secret documents <u>from </u>the safe that was hidden <u>under </u>a desk.
2. I put the documents <u>in </u>my bag without looking <u>at </u>them.
3. She snuck <u>under </u>the gate, and I removed the alarm <u>from </u>the wall.
4. We escaped <u>from </u>the base and we looked <u>at </u>the documents, which were ungraded school papers.
Explanation:
Prepositions are words used to connect other words within a sentence and express the relationship between them. Depending on what type of relationship they express, prepositions can be prepositions of time, place, direction, agent, possession, and so on.
Examples of prepositions found in the sentences are<em> from, under, in, </em>and <em>at.</em>
He is using appealing words to help sell of the donkey. This is made clear at the end when it says," Who will bid for this exceptional creature"
Answer:
In this passage, Whitman is celebrating how the death and life of his self and his body are interconnected with the natural world.
Explanation:
When we die, the physical substance of the body—literally the molecules of the flesh—rot away to become once again a part of the natural world. But the same thing is true when we are living. We breathe in the molecules of the air, which become a part of us, even as they began as a part of other things. "Song of Myself" is all about these kinds of transcendent connections. Whitman is celebrating his "self" ("I celebrate myself, and sing myself"), but he's doing so by acknowledging the ways his self relies on the forces and energies and bodies of the natural and human worlds around him.
