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Is time is gold is an example of a paradox

it can true, or it can be wrong No, it isn't a paradox, it is simply an adage. A paradox is a statement that appears to contradict itself within the sentence. "This sentence is false" is the classic paradox.

Difference between Situational Irony and Verbal Irony with example

Verbal irony has to do with words, but situaltional irony has to do with events. -APEX ANSWER

Who wrote a room for ones own

Virginia Woolf

When was Tim Marlow born

Tim Marlow was born in 1963, in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, England, UK.

What information does professor trevelyan provide about women of the 17th century

They were given large sums of money when they got married.

Which sentence most accurately evaluates the spoken rhetoric of churchills their finest hour

churchills lack of enthusiasm makes it seem as though the words of his speech are not his own

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Churchill's serious tone makes it seem as though he is giving bad news rather than rallying support.

Which statement best explains the historical contradiction about women that Woolf describes

In the world of imagination, women were important, but in the ordinary world they were insignificant.

Women filled the pages of poetry but earned little attention in history books.

Women were powerful in stories yet considered property of their husbands in reality.

Which theme of imperialist literature is echoed in A Room of One's Own

Its acceptable to consider certain humans as property

What question best represents the theme Woolf analyzes in A Room of One's Own

why didn’t women write during cert historical period.

What is one of the faults of imperialism that becomes clear in Heart of Darkness

the colonists activities are largely ineffective -apex

What does Marlow mean when he says that England has been one of the dark places of the Earth

It was once a wild place that was conquered by outsiders.

What is one piece of evidence from a voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnm's that shows the Houyhnhnm's are more civilized than typical animals

They use formal gestures when they greet each other.

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What is most likely the purpose of "A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms" in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

To challenge people's assumptions about their own importance.

Why didn't Jonathan Swift agree with his contemporaries' assumption that the English were better than people elsewhere in the world

He thought everyone was basically bad, including all English people.

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Which sentence describes an example of situational irony in Gulliver's Travels

Instead of horses pulling carriages full of people, people pull carriages full of horses.

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Which sentence expresses an argument that a typical English person in the 1700s or 1800s might have made to defend imperialism

"we need to teach the people in the colonies to accept Christians values."

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which statement best explains why the lady's dressing room is satirical

The speaker of the poem exaggerates the filth left behind by a lady.

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