Romeo and juliet questions:
the prince had told everyone that anyone starting a fight in the streets would be punished by death. which of the following is most likely the reason that mercutio is unafraid to start a fight with tybalt?
a. he thinks tybalt fights by the numbers and can easily be defeated.
b. the prince is his close relative and unlikely to punish him with death.
c. he knows that he is neither a montague nor a capulet, the two families that the prince is trying to control.
d. he did not know about the prince's decree.

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief