Read the sentence below and answer the following question: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…" —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

What is the advantage of repeating the syntax of the initial clause “It was the…”?

The monotone creates a feeling of disaster.
The parallel words make the reader confused.
The pattern suggests that music will be used.
The repetition creates a comparison/contrast theme.

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Answer 1
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The answer to the question above would be that the advantage of repeating the syntax of the inital clause is that the repetition creates a comparison/contrast theme.

Charles Dickens has used the same structure to talk about opposites: he says that it was the best of times at the same it was the worst of times and adds that it was the age of wisdom together with the age of foolishness. He uses the same syntactic construction to refer to both positive and negative things and, in this way, creates a comparison/contrast theme.

Answer 2
Answer: The repetition creates a comparison/contrast theme.

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What viewpoint on men and women does Victor's description of Elizabeth reflect in the passage from Frankenstein?A.Women are eager for change, while men prefer stability.
B.Women are less interested in concrete ideas than men are.
C.Women are slow to anger but worse than men when they do so.
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The correct answer is: B.Women are less interested in concrete ideas than men are.

Indeed, Elizabeth Frankenstein, née Lavenza represents the Romantic part of the couple. She is more interested in the contemplation of nature and focuses on the Sublime and on the nature of love. Victor Frankenstein represents the more rational, Classicist part of the couple. He can perceive the beauty and the grandeur of nature but wished to understand and master its innermost causes. The following excerpt proves such assessment:

“She busied herself with following the aerial creations of the poets; and in the majestic and wondrous scenes which surrounded our Swiss home —the sublime shapes of the mountains, the changes of the seasons, tempest and calm, the silence of winter, and the life and turbulence of our Alpine summers—she found ample scope for admiration and delight. While my companion contemplated with a serious and satisfied spirit the magnificent appearances of things, I delighted in investigating their causes. The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine. Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.”

B. Women are less interested in concrete ideas than men are.

Evidence: "
I delighted in investigating the facts relative to the actual world; she busied herself in following the aerial creations of the poets."

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B. Changing
C. Constructing
D. Attaching

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Answer: C) Constructing.

Explanation: a synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language. From the given options, the word that best replaces "fabricating" in the sentence, is the corresponding to option C: constructing, because they both have a similar meaning (manufacturing a product), and by replacing it, the meaning of the sentence would remain the same.

your answer would be constructing

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