A. Dark and Somber
<span>“The Hollow Men” by T.S Eliot is a dark and very meaningful poem, written just after the war and when Eliot was going through a difficult marital stage.</span>
1 is wrong it should be
only Saturn had rings. It was presumed
The phrases creating a tone of foreboding are:
- "strange blight;"
- "evil spell;"
- "mysterious maladies;"
- "shadow of death."
<em>Foreboding</em> means predicting or announcing that something bad is about to happen. Taking the answers one by one, you can see how they relate to the same ominous idea:
- a "strange blight" and "evil maladies" refer to a destructive condition which no-body can explain;
- an "evil spell" means that it is interpreted as a magical curse;
- the "shadow of death" is a metaphor meaning that death is coming to the crops or cattle (depending on the original text excerpt).
It emphasizes the savagery of the assassins’ actions toward Caesar. This is how Shakespeare’s use of the word slaughter rather than murder affect the meaning of the passage.
The word slaughter shows much more "rude" effect than the word murder. So, Shakespeare used this slaughter word so that readers can feel the brutality with which Caesar was killed.
Not only because he was stabbed several times, but also because one of the people who killed him was Brutus and also his death was agreed by a plot, not by something that Caesar has done.
Hence, the correct answer is Option C -It emphasizes the savagery of the assassins' actions toward Caesar.
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