Which of the following statements best describes how lines 1–12 in sonnet 116 develop the ideas of the poem? a. the meaning of the poem changes in the second quatrain. b. the third quatrain develops ideas different than those expressed in the first two quatrains. c. each quatrain shows the speaker’s feelings of love from a different perspective. d. all of the quatrains express a single thought in different ways.

All of the quatrains express a single thought in different ways.

Each of the quatrains describes love as constant and never changing. The first says that love isn't love if the feeling changes when the person who is loved changes. The second says that love never changes "it is an ever-fixed mark". It continues this idea of love being constant in the last quatrain when it talks about how love doesn't change over time. He says that a person's looks will change and alter of time, but love does not. It isn't until the final couplet does he comment on this topic of love being constant. This content structure is typical of Shakespeare's sonnets.

answer: the correct answer is that he still ridicules people that look different.

explanation: in "the nose"   by nikolai gogol, the author sets up a satirical view of russian society. the book is divided into three parts and tells the story of collegiate assessor ('major') kovalyov, who gets up one morning without his nose. he later finds out that his nose has developed a life by itself, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of state councillor. the short story showcases the obsession with social rank that plagued russia after peter the great introduced the table of ranks. by allowing commoners to attain hereditary nobility through service to the state, a large population was given the chance to move up in social status. this opportunity, however, also gave way to large bureaucracies, in which many of gogol's characters worked.