Read the excerpt below and answer the question. batter my heart, three-person’d god; for you as yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; (“holy sonnet xiv: batter my heart”; lines 1–2) the meter of these two lines is: u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ // u/ u/ u/ u/ // /u u/ u/ u/ // /u u/ u/ u/ u/ /u u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ // u/ u

u/ u/ u/ u/ u/

u/ u/ u/ u/ u/

Explanation:

The Holy Sonnet XIV by John Donne is a sonnet appealing for a restoration of the soul by God. The speaker of the poem is appealing to God enter his heart in a violent manner, not even requesting for gentle intervention.

The given lines are the first two lines of the sonnet. This poem is written in the iambic pentameter form of poetry, where each line has ten syllables, or iambs. And these syllables are in alternating meters, where the unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.

Thus, the meter of the two lines is

u/ u/ u/ u/ u/

u/ u/ u/ u/ u/

question 1: d) the old man continued, "in the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.'"

question 2: d) by providing a different perspective and encouraging the englishman to never give up, the boy him to discover the alchemist.

question 3: c) the stones he gave santiago the boy to recognize omens, which will him on his journey to find his personal legend.

question 4: d) when the englishman wants to quit, santiago doesn’t allow the englishman to give up.

question 5: a) by instructing the englishman to go and try, the englishman is motivated to continue on his journey toward his personal legend.

explanation:

the answer would be c