12. Grendel's mother is prevented from clawing Beowulf s flesh and stabbing him with her dagger because
a. He wears a mail shirt (flexible body armor made of metal links).
b. He wears a male shirt (flexible armor that protects men).
He wears an emmanuel shirt (armor that has been blessed by a priest).
d. He wears a mao shirt (body armor which has a protective spell)..
e He wears a mael shirt (body armor made of chrome steel).

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) which of these is the main idea of the poem?

Read the sentences below. (1) wordsworth believed that poetry should present the ordinary in unusual ways, and shelley's "ode to the west wind" does just that. (2) in the poem, the speaker calls the wind "thou breath of autumn's being." (3) later in the poem, the speaker refers to the wind as both "destroyer and preserver." which word or phrase would smooth the transition between sentence 1 and sentence 2? a "in addition" b "finally" c "for instance" d "moreover"

Which is not a controlling idea in the essay? a) average joggers b) importance of tradition eliminate c) olympic-level competitors d) fräbel-designed crystal peach