Which excerpt from Silent Spring best appeals to readers' pathos? 1. So it had been from the days many years ago when the first settlers raised their houses, sank their wells, and built their
barns.
2. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in
spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color
that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines.
3. The countryside was, in fact, famous for the abundance and variety of its bird life, and when the flood of migrants was
pouring through in spring and fall people traveled from great distances to observe them.
4.Yet every one of these disasters has actually happened somewhere, and many real communities have already suffered a
substantial number of them. A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy may easily
become a stark reality we all shall know.

The lines "original! we're all as like each other as those dolls cut out of the same folded paper. we're like patterns stencilled on a wall. can't you and i strike out for ourselves, may? " reflect which of the recurring themes of 20th and 21st century american literature?

Which sentence does not contain an intensive pronoun? a) i guess i will just take out the trash myself. b) while treating herself to lunch, angie ran into an old friend. c) tony himself made dinner last night even though he hates to cook. d) lisa wondered if she herself was the one who left the oven on all day.

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.