D is the answer I thinking
If your options are:
<span>A) It emphasizes the fulfillment of worldly love.
B) It mentions religious institutions such as the Catholic Church.
C) It emphasizes the superiority of virtue.
D) It uses reason to make its point.
The correct answer should be </span>A) It emphasizes the fulfillment of worldly love. Humanism is all about being human, as its name suggests. This sonnet emphasizes it because the speaker is divided between traditional, medieval, religious notion of Virtue, and his earthly, human desire. Furthermore, he explicitly says that he is weary of Virtue and its rigid and stern demands.
Read this excerpt from “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe.
One night, returning home, much intoxicated, from one of my haunts about town, I fancied that the cat avoided my presence. I seized him; when, in his fright at my violence, he inflicted a slight wound upon my hand with his teeth.
How does the author use symbolism in this passage to develop a clear idea
of the narrator's character?
Answer:
From the passage, the symbolism of the black cat symbolises the soul of the narrator which is dark, destroyed and decaying.
The black cat is symbolic because of its meow which draws attention to the wall and also the sickening pleasure the narrator has because he thinks he has gotten away with what he has done.