Read the passage. excerpt from act i, scene 1, in a midsummer night's dream by william shakespeare lysander ay me! for aught that i could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. what does lysander mean by "the course of true love never did run smooth"? your father is testing us to see if we really love each other. if you truly love me, you wouldn’t be upset now. true lovers always have to overcome problems to be together. other people’s problems are much worse than ours.

True lovers always have to overcome problems to be together.

In the excerpt, Lysander says that every story he read or heard always had problems for the lovers. He is not speaking directly about the father. He is also not saying anything about her being upset. However, his lines are meant to console her, but not in a way that creates an ultimatum. The last one is also not true because he is not comparing their love as any better or worse than any other people's love. He is simply stating that lovers always have obstacles to face in their relationship.

b. he wants to keep from being identified by former masters.

explanation:

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)