You have just heard a speaker talk about the need to save an endangered animal, stressing its uniqueness. You realize she has not mentioned the potential harm the animal might cause. What type of listening have you used in this example? purposeful listening
passive listening
appreciative listening
critical listening

Is this personification? "i have played the fox, now i must play the cat of the fable"

Which statement explains the relationship between literary devices and theme? literary devices are theme. literary devices distract from the theme. literary devices replace a theme. literary devices emphasize theme.

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,    better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.    laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.    laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. (laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain) which of these is the main idea of the poem?