Which statement best describes a major theme of "the tell-tale heart"?
a. honesty can relieve you of your guilt and you feel better
b. fear can shape how we see things and how we act
c. our sanity is determined by how we react to different situations
d. the truth is a matter of personal perception and beliefs

The interaction between joanna and triburcio can best be described as a) heated b) apathetic c) despondent d) hopeful

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

What is the narrators main conflict in this passage