Imagine you were generating ideas for a speech about the moon. You decide to include three main points in your outline: The moon is the only extraterrestrial body to have been visited by humans. The moon's physical properties are very different from the earth's. The gravitational force between the moon and earth affects the earth. After a brief brainstorming session, you come up with the list of ideas below and begin to group them into your three main points. Which ideas are irrelevant to your thesis and will not group well with the focus of your speech? Select all that apply. The moon plays an important role in mythology. The moon no longer has an active, volcanic interior like the earth. The moon affects ocean tides. The moon is the second brightest object in the sky. Apollo 11 was the first mission to land on the moon. The moon has no atmosphere. Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. The impact theory of the moon's origin is the most widely accepted. The gravitational pull of the moon is slowing the earth's rotation. Earth's moon is roughly the same size as Jupiter's moon Io.

Read o captain! my captain! by walt whitman, 1819 - 1892 and tell me the theme

Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next

When reading a poem closely to interpret its meaning and nuances, what can give you clues about the theme of the poem? a the rhyme scheme b. the stanza structure c. the title of the poem d. the name of the poet