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What happens to tissue builder upon contacting water?

 Which of the following is the strongest example of a thesis statement for a literary analysis essay?

While poetry is usually organized by stanzas and lines, fiction (prose) is organized by…

Consider the excerpt below from a work of fiction. The highlighted portion is an example of _______, a literary device in which characters talk to one another. Far away in a distant city, a man, carelessly looking among some papers, turned over a faded bunch of flowers tied with a blue ribbon and a lock of hair. He paused meditatively awhile, then turning to the regal-looking woman lounging before the fire, he asked: “Wife, did you ever send me these?” She raised her great, black eyes to his with a gesture of ineffable disdain, and replied languidly: “You know very well I can’t bear flowers. How could I ever send such sentimental trash to any one? Throw them into the fire.” And the Easter bells chimed a solemn requiem as the flames slowly licked up the faded violets. Was it merely fancy on the wife’s part, or did the husband really sigh,—a long, quivering breath of remembrance?

What are the four main literary genres?

Below is an excerpt from a literary work. What is the genre? Scene III Chitra: No, impossible. To face that fervent gaze that almost grasps youlike clutching hands of the hungry spirit within; to feel hisheart struggling to break its bounds urging its passionate crythrough the entire body—and then to send him away like abeggar—no, impossible. Enter MADANA and VASANTA.Ah, god of love, what fearful flame is this with which thou hastenveloped me! I burn, and I burn whatever I touch. Madana: I desire to know what happened last night. Chitra: At evening I lay down on a grassy bed strewn with the petals ofspring flowers, and recollected the wonderful praise of my beautyI had heard from Arjuna;—drinking drop by drop the honey that Ihad stored during the long day. The history of my past life likethat of my former existences was forgotten. I felt like aflower, which has but a few fleeting hours to listen to all thehumming flatteries and whispered murmurs of the woodlands andthen must lower its eyes from the Sky, bend its head and at abreath give itself up to the dust without a cry, thus ending theshort story of a perfect moment that has neither past nor future.

Which of the following are attributes of a scholarly, peer-reviewed article?

Below is an excerpt from a literary work. What is the genre?   When I am dead I may not remember  the mess of purple irises in the neighbor’s garden — or the way I leaned against their fence to look at him. Lost to rot, the body:— And the soul? This is not the time, nor the place.  I will die when it’s no longer possible for this body to show itself best. It makes me sad, the things I wanted —:  love’s gorgeous force:— a tight fat cloud of blue hydrangea—: someone coaxed the soil to color  ]the universe:— cancer of the hallelu:—[ my name in his mouth:— an arrogance of vapor—: a star—: diminished :— sucked down into paper. 

In your own words, describe close reading/literary analysis. When a professor asks you to do this, what are they asking you to do? Please write at least a few sentences and provide specific examples from our class, from the literary criticism you read, or from your own essays.

Consider the following poem. Which of the following words describes the “I” of the poem? That is, what is the name of the literary device that describes the entity relaying the poem to readers? 1 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 2 Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 3 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 4 And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; 5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 6 And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; 7 And every fair from fair sometime declines, 8 By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d; 9 But thy eternal summer shall not fade, 10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;  11 Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, 12 When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: 13   So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, 14   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.