Who is your favorite Percy Jackson character? Fans only Fans only!

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,    better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.    laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.    laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. (laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain) which of these is the main idea of the poem?

Which of the plot elements below usually comes first in a story? climax exposition rising action resolution

The waves crash on the shore ? alliteration ,assonance,onomatopoeia