"This is love colored with iron and lace" figurative language

Which of the following passages from “the californian’s tale” to advance the theme that pride can lead to regret? a.california has living dead men walking around b. tramping all day long with pick and pan and horn c. thirty-five years ago i was out prospecting on the stanislaus

Fill in the began as a rejection of classicism. (choose the best answer) a. realism b. confucianism c. romanticism d. the information age

Plz asap read this sentence from paragraph 3 of the article. the boys and girls are merely asked to obtain the signatures of ten friends or relatives. how does the word "merely" affect the meaning of the sentence? a- it suggests that asking people to subscribe to the washington times is something negative. b- it implies that obtaining ten signatures is not a requirement for receiving a prize. c- it downplays the fact that to win the prize, children must ask people to subscribe to the washington times. d- it emphasizes that children receive the prize only if they obtain ten signatures.