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What is the rhyme scheme in the first stanza of “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”? My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

Read the first stanza of W. B. Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming” below. Then, choose the labels next to each of the corresponding lines to specify whether the line is enjambed or end-stopped.      Turning and turning in the widening gyre          [_1_]      The falcon cannot hear the falconer;                  [_2_]      Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;       Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, 5   The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere      The ceremony of innocence is drowned;           [_3_]      The best lack all conviction, while the worst    [_4_]      Are full of passionate intensity.

  In “The Veldt,” what do David McClean and the children do at the end of the story?  

Which of the following statements is NOT true of reading poetry?

If a stockholder cannot attend a stockholder’s meeting, he may delegate his voting rights by means of?

Match each of the following terms to the corresponding description

  How does Kiowa explain seeing Ted Lavender get killed?  

Wilfred Owen wrote his poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” during World War I. Consider the following excerpt from this poem and respond to the question below. Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Which of the following descriptions best aligns with the tone in these four lines?

  How is the plot of a story different from its action?  

  How does Mme. Lantin come to attend the theater without her husband?