explain how the themes of envy and revenge are addressed in the epic Beowulf.

Romeo and juliet's love is described as star-crossed, which means ____________. lost. famous. ill-fated. planned by god.

50 POINTS, No incorrect answers please, I will report incorrect answers.

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this essay.

Which quotations from “A Quilt of a Country” develop the author’s viewpoint that America’s diversity is what unifies it?
Select each correct answer.

A. "That's because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. Out of many, one. That is the ideal."

B. "These are the representatives of a mongrel nation that somehow, at times like this, has one spirit."

C. "Tolerance is the word used most often when this kind of coexistence succeeds, but tolerance is a vanilla-pudding word, standing for little more than the allowance of letting others live unremarked."

D. "Many of the oft-told stories of the most pluralistic nation on earth are stories not of tolerance, but of bigotry."

Retype the sentence, using inverted order.

The lemon that was served with my tea was bitter in a paragraph.

What kind of sentence structure is best for explaining how a reader can complete a task?
A. Compound
B. Complex
C. Intricate
D. Simple

Read this sentence.

Second, there is the New York of the commuter—the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night.

How does the figure of speech “devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night” affect the passage?

A. It describes the way commuters use and abuse what the city has to offer.

B. It describes that habits of an insect population that plagues New York.

C. It compares the commuters’ behavior when they come to the city to that of insects.

D. It compares the number of New York commuters to an insect invasion.

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excerpt from Clarence Darrow’s closing argument in Illinois v. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, August 22–25, 1924

…They wanted a complete crime. There had been growing in this brain, dwarfed and twisted as every act in this case shows it was dwarfed and twisted, there had been growing this scheme, not due to any wickedness of Dickie Loeb, for he is a child. It grew as he grew; it grew from those around him; it grew from the lack of the proper training until it possessed him. He believed he could beat the police. He believed he could plan the perfect crime. He had thought of it and talked of it for years. Had talked of it as a child; had worked at it as a child, and this sorry act of his, utterly irrational and motiveless, a plan to commit a perfect crime which must contain kidnapping and there must be ransom, or else it could not be perfect, and they must get the money.



How does the frequent use of repetition in this excerpt advance the author's viewpoint about Dickie Loeb, the criminal?


A. It emphasizes that Loeb was doomed to be unsuccessful in committing the crime.

B. It shows that Loeb, in the speaker's view, was a merciless killer.


C. It demonstrates, in the speaker's view, that Loeb was foolishly obsessed with the crime.


D. It implies that Loeb was a misguided person who couldn't help himself.

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Which quotation from the essay helps to create an affectionate tone in "Here is New York"?

A. “…the man who lives in Mamaroneck or Little Neck or Teaneck, and works in New York, discovers nothing much about the city except the time of arrival and departure of trains and buses,…”

B. “There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable.”

C. “. . . a drowsy afternoon in the great rustling oaken silence of the reading room of the Public Library, with the book elevator (like an old water wheel) spewing out books onto the trays.”

D. “The Long Island Rail Road alone carried forty million commuters last year; but many of them were the same fellow retracing his steps.”

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Select the word from the drop-down menu that best suggests that the dog has been unable to find food.

As the dog approached, I noticed that its hair hung in mats from its ________ frame.

A. bony

B. slim

C. narrow

D. slight

What country is NOT LIKELY to be included in a research report about the origins of acupuncture?

Read the following sentences from the passage.
(6) Countries now have access to once unreachable resources, such as oil and natural gas. (7) ________ some people worry that this could cause confrontation between certain nations.

Based on the context, choose the transitional word that best fills the blank.
A. Alternatively,
B. Consequently,
C. Nevertheless,
D. Likewise,

How does replacing the word carefully with meticulously inform your overall understanding of the lawyer and her or his actions?
The lawyer carefully reviewed every piece of evidence in the case.
It suggests that the lawyer cared about the case and paid close attention to details.
It implies that no one had reviewed the evidence before.
It implies that the lawyer was well-educated and had done this before.
It suggests that time was limited and could not be wasted.

Which of the following words has a negative connotation? (10 points)  Discouraging  Freedom  Exhilarated  Bulb

Write about something you’ve learned about the USA. Use at least 4 words from the spelling list.

what is the great quality in Gatsby's smile?

A director casts a play about colonialism so that English speakers play the colonizers and Spanish speakers play the colonized people. What is the most likely intent of the director's interpretation?


A. To suggest that Spanish speakers were the true victims of colonialism


B. To suggest that there exists a similar division of power between speakers of different languages


C. To suggest that English colonialism was much more violent than Spanish colonialism


D. To suggest that a new form of colonialism is necessary today

Why were the people of Amsterdam angry with the Germans shooting down airmen

Both petroleum and coal are made up of complex carbon-based molecules, and both originated with living creatures of some kind. Both are vital sources of energy for the modern world and both were formed by geologic processes over millions of years. However, petroleum was mainly formed from the remains of ocean-dwelling microorganisms. Coal, on the other hand, originated from decayed vegetation in ancient swamps and bogs. In any case, it took millions of years for both coal and oil to be produced. This is the case because it took that much time for overlying sediments to produce the unimaginable heat and pressure that would one day allow us to harvest these energy resources. What is one clue word or phrase in the passage that indicates a contrast? A. In any case B. Both C. However D. Because

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Which type of poem is MOST LIKELY to have a long war as its subject matter or background?
A)
an epic
B)
a haiku
C)
a ballad
D)
a sonnet

COUNTY ATTORNEY (facetiously). Well, Henry, at least we found out that she was not going to quilt it. She was going to—what is it you call it, ladies!

MRS. HALE (her hand against her pocket). We call it—knot it, Mr. Henderson.

How is this excerpt an example of irony?
A) The lighthearted and humorous tone of the County Attorney is the opposite of what you would expect during a situation like this.
B) A show of interest in the quilt on the men’s behalf was a sudden twist of what would normally be expected.
C) The County Attorney appeared to be asking a question about the quilt, but he was actually asking another question entirely.
D) It appeared as though Mrs. Hale was answering the question, but she actually meant something quite different with her response.

(B is incorrect)

If this be error and upon me proved/ I nevered writ, nor no man ever loved."

What is the impact of these concluding lines from shakespeare's sonnet 116?
1. They underscore the fact that everyone makes mistakes
2. They underscore the fat that shakespeare is a writer
3. They underscore the conviction the emotions are unreliable.
4.They underscore the conviction,

What is definition of identity?

Steve Jobs' Commencement Address. In his commencement address, Steve Jobs talks about the themes of connecting the dots, love and loss, and death. Choose one of these themes and explain how it connects with your life. Be specific.

Which line from the poem best supports the idea that the poem’s tone is one of wistful reflection?

“I kept the first for another day”
“Had worn them really about the same”
“I shall be telling this with a sigh”

What is definition of identity?

With narrative writing, the strongest connection a reader establishes with the text is based on A. emotions. B. credibility. C. reflection. D. research.

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Which parts of these excerpts show that slaves had no legal rights and were often betrayed by their masters?


The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

by Frederick Douglass (excerpt)


A) all remained slaves, from the youngest to the oldest

B )if any one thing in my experience, more than another, served to deepen my conviction of the infernal character of slavery, and of slaveholders, it was their based ingratitude to my poor old grandmother

C) she had served my old master faithfully from youth to old age

D) She was nevertheless a slave—a slave for life—a slave in the hands of strangers; and in their hands she saw her children, her grandchildren, and her great-grandchildren, divided like so many sheep, without being gratified with the small privilege of a single word as to their or her own destiny.


Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet Ann Jacobs (excerpt)


E) He was a bright, handsome lad, nearly white; for he inherited the complexion my grandmother had derived from Anglo-Saxon ancestors.

F) seven hundred and twenty dollars were paid for him.

G) he had laid up three hundred dollars, which her mistress one day begged as a loan, promising to pay her soon

H) no promise or writing given to a slave is legally binding

I) according to Southern laws, a slave, being property, can hold no property.

What is the final test in the book the things they carried?

Describe a situation in which you read something that had a particular context that was unfamiliar to you. Did you struggle to make sense of it? Did you need to get more information to ease your reading experience? One situation might be a book, a story, or an article that you had difficulty understanding because you didn't have some prior knowledge—historical, cultural, or technical. Another situation is a time when a text inspired you to gather information on a new topic.

As you describe and discuss the significance of context, consider these questions: Do certain genres of fiction often present more challenges in terms of unfamiliar context than others, and why? How much responsibility do you think writers should take to make their writing comprehensible to a broad group of readers? How much should readers have to fill in any gaps? Are such gaps inevitable when the writer wrote the text many years before the time of reading? If so, why, and in what time periods does this seem to be true?

The phone at Mary’s house has been ringing for three minutes nonstop, but she ignores it. She has watched a news item on the TV that has made her freeze with panic. Three days before, four men entered a jewelry store carrying mallets and guns and ordered the people inside to get on the ground. Among the people in the store was Sergeant Bruce Prothero, a police officer and father of five who had a second job working as a security guard at the mall. The men grabbed almost $500,000 worth of jewelry and sprinted out; Sergeant Prothero dashed after them. In the mall parking lot, the men shot him three times from the car. Sergeant Prothero died as the men sped away.

50 POINTS + BRAINLIEST ANSWER!!!!

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Can someone help me write a 6 line poem, the poem needs to include alliteration, onomatopoeia and, simile.

I used allot of points on this.. So an unhelpful or inaccurate answer will get reported.

Read the following passage:

As the New England weather gets colder, we enjoy watching the Canada Geese as they migrated south for the winter.

Based on the clues, what is the most likely definition of the word migrate?

to swim
to move
to fly
to walk

Read the sentence. Antarctica is often associated with the magnetic South Pole. They are actually 1,600 miles apart. Which choice shows the punctuation and/or conjunction neede to correctly combine the sentences?