These are not English questions these are history questions
Character, as if the two were gladiators, waging war on the sands of the Coliseum in some winner-take-all death battle. Both sides of the debate claim a definitive superiority for their chosen gladiator, and for the most part, the battle splits nicely down the lines of literary and commercial fiction, the commercialists placing the emphasis on plot in the interest of producing “page turners,” while the literati poke up their noses at the thought of anything so crude and artless.
I'm assuming an article is not a part of speech. Next, I'm going to go with v, as there are no contractions or abbreviations in bacteria. For 3, they are both organisms, and that is a noun, so A. For Part B, "The death of an animal means life for fungi because as fungi decompose the organic material from the animal, they also consume nutrients from it." Hope this helped.
The word that best describe the mood of the poem is 'VIGILANT'.
The poem talks about the need to be watchful and be ready to run for one's dear life at the slightest sense of threat. The poem use simile and sensory imagery to pass across his information of the need to be vigilant.