Which statement is an example of a theme?
a. ben doesn't make the basketball team on his first try, but he works hard and makes the team the next year.
b. ben wanted to be a star basketball player, so he spent many long nights in the gym practicing his skills.
c. it's important to never give up on your dream, no matter how hard the sacrifice and struggle.
d. a boy works hard to become good at basketball and is rewarded with high praise and a scholarship.

In what way does the first line of "london, 1802" vary from the traditional iambic pattern? the word milton is an iamb the word milton is a dactyl the word milton is a trochee?

Read the excerpt from the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde. from that time forward, mr. utterson began to haunt the door in the by-street of shops. in the morning before office hours, at noon when business was plenty, and time scarce, at night under the face of the fogged city moon, by all lights and at all hours of solitude or concourse, the lawyer was to be found on his chosen post. "if he be mr. hyde,” he had thought, "i shall be mr. seek.” how is mr. utterson characterized in the excerpt? as mysterious as depressed as determined as generous

Need the answer asap! read the sentence from the declaration of independence. which idea does this sentence best to develop ? that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government a) governments ultimately have the power to determine what rights the people have. b) revolting against the government should not be taken lightly. c) the colonists should seperate from great britain and create their own government. d) it is self evident that people have inalienable rights