Which of the following options best establishes the relationship between the poem’s sonnet form and its theme?
A.
Its single verse structure and lack of rhyme scheme conveys the futility of fame because death would put an end to the speaker’s desire of writing and being with his beloved.
B.
In the first six lines, the speaker laments how death would prevent him from achieving fame, and in the next eight lines, he attempts to resolve this dilemma.
C.
The unbroken structure allows the speaker to soliloquize about his fear of mortality because death would prevent him from fulfilling himself as a writer and lover.
D.
The first eight lines presents the speaker’s fear about dying before achieving fame, and the next six lines discusses his philosophy on life and death.

Which of these excerpts is most clearly an example of narrative poetry? a. “in xanadu did kubla khan/a stately pleasure dome decree…” b. “and all that’s best of dark and bright/meet in her aspect and her eyes…” c. “who can contemplate fame through clouds unfold/the star which rises…” d. “one shade the more, one ray the less/had half impaired the nameless grace…”

Ihave only a christmas cards left to write. a. few b. fewer c. less d. little

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”