Because all though he knows his sister is dead, he can still hear knocking and scratching sounds coming from her coffin. She's dead, but comes back to life to haunt him causing his madness to grow stronger.
C. You need a comma when the sentence changes subjects from humans to bottlenose dolphins.
The best example of a story's historical context is A. the economic situation the author lives in.
<u>The historical context of a story refers to the background and surrounding situations that affect that story</u>. In that way, it is related to the social, cultural, economic and political circumstances that surround that text and that are linked to specific historical moments. <u>As the economic environment is included as part of the historical context of a story, the economic situation in which the author lives in is the correct answer. </u>
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The poet uses repetition to highlight how much water surrounds the sailors.
Repetition is a literary and rhetorical device which involves the recurrence of a word or phrase for emphasis, to add intensity and to make the speaker's ideas and thoughts more straightforward.
In the passage from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," the author Samuel Taylor Coleridge makes use of repetition to make more forceful the fact that the sailor is thirsty in a motionless ship, in the middle of water but unable to consume it.
