1.which of the following best states the theme of "holy sonnet 10"? select one: a. because life is painful and exhausting, people should welcome death. b. people fear death because they fear the unknown. c. because there is an afterlife, there is really no such thing as death. d. people who do not fear death will never really die. 2.which of the following best states the main message of the excerpt from "meditation 17"? select one: a. any death is a tragedy. b. everyone is part of a greater whole. c. god is all-powerful. d. people are more alike than they are different. 3.in "holy sonnet 10," the speaker's attitude could best be described as select one: a. weary. b. sad. c. bitter. d. defiant. 4.in "a valediction: forbidding mourning," according to the speaker, the lovers' souls "endure an expansion" (lines 22-23) in order to select one: a. shine more brightly. b. prevent the speaker from leaving home. c. bridge the gap between their bodies. d. become one.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion

Maria is writing a persuasive essay for her english class. she asks marshall if it is important to use rhetorical appeals in her essay.which reasons could marshall give in favor of using rhetorical appeals

Americans were concerned about being drawn into another war in europe. how well did president roosevelt address conflicting evidence and viewpoints? use textual evidence from the speech to support your ideas.