It includes a couple personifications such as "hunger, ever at hand to jog his elbow," "<span>despair, ready to engulf him." The former means that hunger is ready to make him shake if he relaxes, and the latter means that the despair is about to overwhelm him.</span>
Answer:
As the answer above suggests, it was the main character's own guilty conscience. As we know, he is... a little mentally unstable. The heartbeat is not from the old man's corpse, it is from his own delusions and insanity from the guilt that he made for himself by murdering the old man in cold blood. Eventually, his guilt from killing the man and his fear of being caught boil over, and he confesses his crime in a dramatic breakdown.
The correct answer is B.Sometimes people are capable of doing more than they realize.
Explanation:
An Unlikely Heroine was written by Elizabeth Kibler. And the implicit main idea in this part is that people are sometimes capable of doing more than they expect or realize. Terese wanted to drop out from the basketball team, but she realized that she had some abilities which she did not know she had and at the end, she was able to coach the team she wanted to drop out before.
The answer is D all of these
