How does the author's use of the word "throne" inform the reader?

A. It emphasizes the rich, time-honored traditions of the British monarchy.
B. It represents the rigid authority that Great Britain maintains over the colonies.
C. It implies that the British monarchy commands respect from its subjects.
D. It suggests that Great Britain is too civilized to go to war with the colonies.

What does twain find ironic and hypocritical about human patriotism?

Do eilinor and marianne each end up with the best husband possible? give reasons for your answer.

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man