Read the two excerpts from act 2, scene 1, of the tragedy of julius caesar. excerpt 1: [brutus.] since cassius first did whet me against caesar i have not slept. between the acting of a dreadful thing and the first motion, all the interim is like a phantasma or a hideous dream. the genius and the mortal instruments are then in council, and the state of man, like to a little kingdom, suffers then the nature of an insurrection. excerpt 2: brutus. kneel not, gentle portia. . you are my true and honourable wife, as dear to me as are the ruddy drops that visit my sad heart. portia. if this were true, then should i know this secret. . tell me your counsels; i will not disclose 'em. i have made strong proof of my constancy, giving myself a voluntary wound here in the thigh. can i bear that with patience, and not my husband's secrets? how do brutus’s moral dilemmas in each excerpt compare? in both excerpts, brutus is concealing a significant secret from a person he loves. in both excerpts, brutus is trying to stop someone from taking too much power. in both excerpts, brutus is deciding whether or not to tell his secret to anyone. in both excerpts, brutus is convinced by someone else that he is doing the right thing.

Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.