Question 12 of 20 : Select the best answer for the question.12. Which of the following is true about office friendships?

A. It's impossible to develop vertical friendships.
B. Office friendships should only be based on ethnic similarities.
C. Workplace cliques can cause horizontal disharmony.
D. Office friendships lead to a workplace in which socializing rarely occurs.

Which of these excerpts highlights the theme of the fleeting nature of life? A-But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
(Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”)

B-And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
(John Donne, Sonnet 10)

C-Of what is fit and not. Forsake thy cage,
Thy rope of sands,
Which petty thoughts have made, and made to thee
(George Herbert, "The Collar")

D-Thy beams, so reverend and strong
Why shouldst thou think?
I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,
But that I would not lose her sight so long;
(John Donne, “The Sun Rising”)

What is the effect of the alliteration in the closing lines of "Ozymandias": "boundless and bare, / the lone and level sands stretch far away"?a. It produces feelings of pity for the death of the king.
b. It stresses the challenges of life in the desert.
c. It brings the poem back to the sculptor's perspective.
d. It focuses attention on the vast, empty space in which the statue is decaying.

Which of the sentences below uses parallel structure?In the story, the protagonist faced conflicts, including falling off a boat, he was held captive, and running for his life.
In the story, the protagonist faces conflicts, including a fall off a boat, being held captive, and a life-threatening chase.
In the story, the protagonist faced conflicts, including falling off a boat, being held captive, and running for his life.
None of the above.

Which written work is often read as a disguised criticism of England's imperialist activities?A) The tempest
B) The wizard of oz
C) A modest proposal
D) The fall of IIIustrious Men

Richard Connell uses personification often in his short story "The Most Dangerous Game." Which line from this excerpt is an example of personification?I'll give him a trail to follow," muttered Rainsford, and he struck off from the rude path he had been following into the trackless wilderness. He executed a series of intricate loops; he doubled on his trail again and again, recalling all the lore of the fox hunt, and all the dodges of the fox. Night found him leg-weary, with hands and face lashed by the branches, on a thickly wooded ridge. He knew it would be insane to blunder on through the dark, even if he had the strength. His need for rest was imperative and he thought, "I have played the fox, now I must play the cat of the fable." A big tree with a thick trunk and outspread branches was near by, and, taking care to leave not the slightest mark, he climbed up into the crotch, and, stretching out on one of the broad limbs, after a fashion, rested. Rest brought him new confidence and almost a feeling of security. Even so zealous a hunter as General Zaroff could not trace him there, he told himself; only the devil himself could follow that complicated trail through the jungle after dark. But perhaps the general was a devil--

An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake and sleep did not visit Rainsford, although the silence of a dead world was on the jungle. Toward morning when a dingy gray was varnishing the sky, the cry of some startled bird focused Rainsford's attention in that direction.
Something was coming through the bush, coming slowly, carefully, coming by the same winding way Rainsford had come. He flattened himself down on the limb and, through a screen of leaves almost as thick as tapestry, he watched. . . . That which was approaching was a man.

It was General Zaroff. He made his way along with his eyes fixed in utmost concentration on the ground before him. He paused, almost beneath the tree, dropped to his knees and studied the ground. Rainsford's impulse was to hurl himself down like a panther, but he saw that the general's right hand held something metallic--a small automatic pistol.

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