Parenthetical citation is used when you quote or mention a specific source used in your essays or thesis. In writing the correct citation to the author, it should be enclosed in a parenthesis, including the name of the author and the page number of the book. Among the given choices, the correct answer is, (Smith 22)
The two parts of this excerpt from W. W. Jacobs's "The Monkey's Paw" show that show the White family doesn't believe in the talisman's power are:
"Sounds like the 'Arabian Nights,'" said Mrs. White, as she rose and began to set the supper.
The 'Arabian Nights' were stories made up by the narrator Scheherazade and told to the King over 1001 nights so that he would not kill her as he had done with so many other women in the past. In this way, it signifies that Mrs. White believes this story to be a made-up tale.
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"Don't you think you might wish for four pairs of hands for me." Her husband drew the talisman from his pocket, and all three burst into laughter
Mr. White is jokingly asking to be given four pairs of hands, something that isn't sensible or realistic, because he does not believe in the power of the talisman to grant wishes. In the end the three burst in laughter as they do not take the talisman, or the story of it's power, seriously.
One can see through a cactus fence, but it is hard to climb through.
Cactus plants are found at tourist beaches.
Cactus is sharp, which represents the pain the natives feel.
Because he was possibly annoyed as well as angry so he decided to use a combination of this to words which supposedly would mean provoked
