Which of these is the main idea of the poem? a. take pride in being a human being. b. music makes people happy. c. life is short; laugh and be merry. d. fighting doesn't resolve problems. laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song, better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong. laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span. laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain

The "most dangerous game" is a short story about a hunter, rainsford, who ends up getting hunted himself on ship-trap island by another man. this passage is part of the story's exposition. what technique does the author use to foreshadow the plot twist which is to come? a) the humor that the men share at the beginning of the story changes into tragedy and horror in an ironic way. b) whitney's lack of empathy for the hunted foreshadows that he will have to learn how the hunted feels-- the hard way. c) whitney's inability to see the island, even though he is known to have great vision, foreshadows his blindness about hunting. d) rainsford's lack of empathy for the hunted foreshadows that he will have to learn how the hunted feels-- the hard way.