Read the excerpt and answer the question. abigail: uncle, the rumor of witchcraft is all about; i think you’d best go down and deny it yourself. the parlor’s packed with people, sir. i’ll sit with her. parris: abigail, i cannot go before the congregation when i know you have not opened with me. what did you do with her in the forest? abigail: we did dance, uncle, and when you leaped out of the bush so suddenly, betty was frightened and then she fainted. and there’s the whole of it. parris: now look you, child, your punishment will come in its time. but if you trafficked with spirits in the forest, i must know it now, for surely my enemies will, and they will ruin me with it. abigail: but we never conjured spirits. what was miller’s purpose for including this interaction between abigail and parris? to show parris began the witchcraft hysteria to show parris and abigail conspired together to show abigail attempting to right her wrongs to show the doubt parris initially had about abigail

What do the words “briefer,” “too beautiful to stay,” and “sleep of death” in the last stanza of wylie’s prom suggest about nature’s bounty and a life of plenty and ease?

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

Which two of these excerpts from homer’s odyssey depict the gods’ involvement in mortal affairs?