What effect does the repetition of the word "and” have on this stanza? It emphasizes that a quiet hill is much more desirable than a droning bee.
It highlights the poet’s desire to seek a quiet hill with a cotton tree.
It stresses the images of the crystal rill, the droning bee, and the cottage, but not the ferns.
It connects and gives equal importance to all of the ideas and images in the stanza.

4. how does the speaker's comparison of sinners to aninsect (paragraph 7) contribute to the central idea of thetext? o a it emphasizes the negative view god has ofsinners and how inconsequential they are to him. o b it stresses the connection that exists between allof god's creatures, whether they be human orinsect. o c it suggests that sinners can change for the better, as insects are known to go throughtransformations. o d it portrays sinners as being just as prevalentaround the earth as the wide variety of insects.