If he continued northwest across the Arabian Sea from Kalhat, Marco Polo would most likely describe Hormuz.
The city of Hormuz is located in current-day Iran, and it is located northwest from Kalhat - also known as Qalhat - which is located north of Sur, in Oman. This is the route that Polo took in his returning trip from China.
On the other hand, both Dhofar and Socotra are southwest from Kalhat, also in Oman. Also, while Venetia is northeast from Kalhat, it would be the last city he would have described after visiting Kalhat.
Oxymoron means <span>a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.</span>
Answer: B. One's endless hunger
Explanation:
In this poem titled "<em>The Coming of Night"</em>, the poet, Linda Pastan alludes to the end of life and the acceptance of it because a time will come when we will have to stop acting in a certain way and just accept that it is time to leave the world.
She speaks of how humans will lose not only the feeling of being ambitious but the endless hunger to acquire and conquer more as well by relating these to lights and flames that will go out or be extinguished.
The correct answer is C. He opened the field of literary criticism.
Apart from being a poet and a writer during the Romantic era of American literature, Edgar Allan Poe was also a critic. As a matter of fact, while he was alive, he wasn't really famous or celebrated as an author, but rather as a critic. Only after his death did people start appreciating his art, but it was too late - he died poor.
