In Clarice Lispector's story "The Smallest Woman in the World" when the explorer first encounters the woman he Question 18Answera.falls in love with the tiny womanb.calmly begins to collect data on her tribec.feels disturbed when confronted by something he can hardly believed.writes a photo essay about his experiences

In her analysis of the modernist Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector’s body of work, scholar Fernanda Negrete notes that Lispector's writing has a deeply philosophical bent. Negrete describes how the writer's work “[features] a persistent practice of thinking at the limits of -------- an analysis that captures the complexity, heft, and weirdness of Lispector’s writing.Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?language” andeliminatelanguage”eliminatelanguage"; andeliminatelanguage,”

What does the story about Midas's wife reveal about the narrator?Group of answer choicesThe narrator is attempting to teach women a lesson.The narrator wants to reveal  her own secrets.The narrator understands that women are not perfectThe narrator has expert knowledge of Greek mythology.

Question 9 of 10Which sentence from the novel best reflects the story's Gothic nature?A.I grasped [Clerval's] hand, and in a moment forgot my horror and misfortune; I felt suddenly, and for the first time during many months, calm and serene joy (47).B.. . . I perceived that the fallen leaves had disappeared, and that the young buds were shooting forth from the trees that shaded my window (51).C.But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles (26).D.. . . [T]he rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open . . . (42).SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Select the correct text in the passage.Which detail best characterizes the woman in the excerpt as a lonely person?adapted excerpt from Madame Bovaryby Gustave FlaubertShe thought, sometimes, that, after all, this was the happiest time of her life—the honeymoon, as people called it. To taste the full sweetness of it, it would have been necessary doubtless to fly to those lands with thundering names where the days after marriage are full of laziness most pleasant. In post beds behind blue silken curtains to ride slowly up steep road, listening to the song of the postilion re-echoed by the mountains, along with the bells of goats and the muffled sound of a waterfall; at sunset on the shores of gulfs to breathe in the perfume of lemon trees; then in the evening on the villa-terraces above, hand in hand to look at the stars, making plans for the future. It seemed to her that certain places on earth must bring happiness, as a plant peculiar to the soil, and that cannot thrive elsewhere. Why could not she lean over balconies in Swiss chalets, or enshrine her melancholy in a Scotch cottage, with a husband dressed in a black velvet coat with long tails, and thin shoes, a pointed hat and frills? Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her—the opportunity, the courage.If Charles had but wished it, if he had guessed it, if his look had but once met her thought, it seemed to her that a sudden plenty would have gone out from her heart, as the fruit falls from a tree when shaken by a hand. But as the familiarity of their life became deeper, the greater became the gulf that separated her from him.Charles's conversation was commonplace as a street pavement, and everyone's ideas trooped through it in their everyday garb, without exciting emotion, laughter, or thought. He had never had the curiosity, he said, while he lived at Rouen, to go to the theater to see the actors from Paris. He could neither swim, nor fence, nor shoot, and one day he could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a nove

"The Lady with the Little Dog" is a 1899 short story by Anton Chekov, a Russian writer, and was translated into English in 1903. In the story, Dmitri begins an affair with a woman he meets while on vacation. In describing Dmitri, Chekov often contrasts his misogyny with his compulsion to be around women, as when Chekov writes of the man, -------Which quotation from "The Lady with the Little Dog" most effectively illustrates the claim? "He secretly considered [his wife] unintelligent, narrow, inelegant, was afraid of her, and did not like to be at home."eliminate"In the society of men he was bored and not himself, with them he was cold and uncommunicative; but when he was in the company of women he felt free, and knew what to say to them and how to behave; and he was at ease with them even when he was silent."eliminate"He... almost always spoke ill of women, and when they were talked about in his presence, used to call them 'the lower race.' It seemed to him that he had been so schooled by bitter experience that he might call them what he liked, and yet he could not get on for two days together without 'the lower race.'"eliminate"In his appearance, in his character, in his whole nature, there was something attractive and elusive which allured women and disposed them in his favour; he knew that, and some force seemed to draw him, too, to them."