Whigh of the following best identifies a theme of the text? a. love is unpredictable and inconsistent b. the most beautiful moments of life are brief c. perfection and paradise are unattainable. d. it is dangerous to forget that we will all die at some point."nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue is hold, her early leaf' s a flower; but only so an hour. then the leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay " - robert frost

I would say that the option that best identifies the theme of the text is B: The most beautiful moments of life are brief.

Explanation:

I chose the second option because I believe that what the author is trying to say is that there are golden moments, perfect periods of time, that suddenly arrive and, also, suddenly disappear. In this text, he is expressing this by using metaphor, comparing those beautiful and brief moments of joy and happiness with the moment in which nature gives us her first "green", her flower; that magical moment that only lingers for a little while. So, the author is comparing those magical and brief moments where nature give us flowers with our personal and unique brief moments that also are brief and magical.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)