Whenever richard cory went down town, we people on the pavement looked at him: he was a gentleman from sole to crown, clean favored, and imperially slim. and he was always quietly arrayed, 5 and he was always human when he talked; but still he fluttered pulses when he said, "good-morning," and he glittered when he walked. and he was rich, -- yes, richer than a king, -- and admirably schooled in every grace: 10 in fine, we thought that he was everything, to make us wish that we were in his place. so on we worked, and waited for the light, and went without the meat, and cursed the bread; and richard cory, one calm summer night, 15 went home and put a bullet through his head. what is the central irony of the poem? a) the people think cory is just like them. b) the speaker uses the first person plural. c) the speaker works hard, but he achieves nothing. d) richard cory seems to have everything, but he kills himself.

Read the passage first of all if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that[it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norway gazed down upon the world from it’s summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.