Which part of the plot is most clearly the rising action?
a. once upon a time, a friendly dragon lived in the mountains.
b. after a hundred years or so of relative peace, an evil knight in shining armor arrived one day and challenged the dragon to a duel
c. they fought an epic battle and the dragon seemed sure to lose when suddenly a beautiful princess showed up and defeated the knight.
d. the dragon and the princess became lasting friends.

Write one paragraph that evaluates the effectiveness of jack zipes's essay

In poem daffodils-how do we know that the yellow daffodils has a long lasting effect on the speaker.

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky