Read the excerpt. from “the lady of shalott” by alfred, lord tennyson there she weaves by night and day a magic web with colors gay. she has heard a whisper say, a curse is on her if she stay to look down to camelot. she knows not what the curse may be, and so she weaveth steadily, and little other care hath she, the lady of shalott. and moving through a mirror clear that hangs before her all the year, shadows of the world appear. there she sees the highway near winding down to camelot: . . and sometimes through the mirror blue the knights come riding two and two: how does the lady of shalott experience the outside world? she sees the world through reflections in her mirror. she views the world through a window. knights from camelot bring her news about the world. people tell her secrets about the world.

What word or words suggest they have a monotonous marriage? in the lamb to the slaughter

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion

In describing jimmy wells as the truest, most loyal fellow, what tone is conveyed