What main idea links all three of the article excerpts contained in the
passage together?
A) Taxation rates should be applied equally and fairly to
all people.
B) A little bit of kindness goes a long way in trying to
change the world.
C) No one deserves to be lonely, and everyone deserves
to be loved.
D) African-Americans had to fight long and hard to
receive equal rights in America.

In the first line of each stanza, the author follows the pattern of a noun followed by a pair of adjectives. what is the purpose of this pattern?

Which is easier to identify direct or indirect characterization? why

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b. being sliced open by a giant blade c. being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive