HURRY! WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST!! In Paragraph 5, how does the statement "The humorous story is told gravely" refine the author's main idea?
1. It explains why the plot of a humorous story is more important than it's delivery
2. It suggests that a humorous story can last forever because of its artistic nature
3. It gives the most common reason why people fail when telling a humorous story
4. It reveals that what makes a humorous story difficult is pretending its not funny

In this excerpt from "dover beach" by matthew arnold, which two lines or sets of lines suggest that the speaker has undergone a loss of faith? the sea of faith was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. but now i only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, retreating, to the breath of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear and naked shingles of the world. ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.

Which pair of words most accurately describes how atticus is characterized in to kill a mockingbird? moral and excitable calm and disinterested weary and wry wise and guiding

When the telephone rings incessantly, what is it that the men want to have happen? they want the phone to be answered because it is jangling their nerves. they want mr. frank to go to the office and answer it because they are afraid it might be bad news. they want mr. frank to go to the office because they think it might be miep. they want mr frank to ignore the phone.