Read the poem “dew” and answer the question. as dew leaves the cobweb lightly threaded with stars, scattering jewels on the fence and the pasture bars; as dawn leaves the dry grass bright and the tangled weeds bearing a rainbow gem on each of their seeds; so has your love, my lover, fresh as the dawn, made me a shining road to travel on, set every common sight of tree or stone delicately alight for me alone. which statement best supports the main theme of the poem? the speaker her lover for showing her the world in fresh new ways. love is a journey filled with both common and extraordinary things. the beauty of nature is revealed through love. without love, the world is little more than common sights.

Read the passage from chapter 17 of the prince. and of all princes, it is impossible for the new prince to avoid the imputation of cruelty, owing to new states being full of dangers. hence virgil, through the mouth of dido, excuses the inhumanity of her reign owing to its being new, saying: "res dura, et regni novitas me talia cogunt moliri, et late fines custode tueri."(*) nevertheless he ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence may not make him incautious and too much distrust render him intolerable. . against my will, my fate a throne unsettled, and an infant state, bid me defend my realms with all my pow'rs, and guard with these severities my shores. what reasoning does machiavelli use in this passage? machiavelli uses deductive reasoning by first introducing the conclusion that new rulers must be cruel and then supporting it with evidence. machiavelli uses deductive reasoning by starting with statistical evidence and then concluding that rulers must be cruel. machiavelli uses inductive reasoning by first presenting an observed pattern of details and then concluding that new rulers must be cruel. machiavelli uses inductive reasoning by starting with the conclusion that new rulers must be cruel and then supporting it with short narratives.