Which sentence best summarizes a central idea of this poem? children may understand more than adults realize. adults can learn from the way children experience joy. children appreciate gifts provided by nature. gifts are better when connected to nature.

read the poem.

colored toys

when i bring to you colored toys, my child,

i understand why there is such a play of colors on clouds, on water,

and why flowers are painted in tints

i give colored toys to you, my child.

when i sing to make you dance

i truly now why there is music in leaves,

and why waves send their chorus of voices to the heart of the listening earth

i sing to make you dance.

when i bring sweet things to your greedy hands

i know why there is honey in the cup of the flowers

and why fruits are secretly filled with sweet juice

i bring sweet things to your greedy hands.

when i kiss your face to make you smile, my darling,

i surely understand what pleasure streams from the sky in morning light,

and what delight that is that is which the summer breeze brings to my body

i kiss you to make you smile.

which sentence best summarizes a central idea of this poem?

children may understand more than adults realize.

adults can learn from the way children experience joy.

children appreciate gifts provided by nature.

gifts are better when connected to nature.

Read the passage from chapter 17 of the prince. and of all princes, it is impossible for the new prince to avoid the imputation of cruelty, owing to new states being full of dangers. hence virgil, through the mouth of dido, excuses the inhumanity of her reign owing to its being new, saying: "res dura, et regni novitas me talia cogunt moliri, et late fines custode tueri."(*) nevertheless he ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence may not make him incautious and too much distrust render him intolerable. . against my will, my fate a throne unsettled, and an infant state, bid me defend my realms with all my pow'rs, and guard with these severities my shores. what reasoning does machiavelli use in this passage? machiavelli uses deductive reasoning by first introducing the conclusion that new rulers must be cruel and then supporting it with evidence. machiavelli uses deductive reasoning by starting with statistical evidence and then concluding that rulers must be cruel. machiavelli uses inductive reasoning by first presenting an observed pattern of details and then concluding that new rulers must be cruel. machiavelli uses inductive reasoning by starting with the conclusion that new rulers must be cruel and then supporting it with short narratives.