In which excerpt does claudius tell laertes of his plan to ensure hamlet's death?
good laertes,
if you desire to know the certainty
of your dear father's death, is't writ in your revenge,
that, swoopstake, you will draw both friend and foe,
winner and loser?
(hamlet act iv, scene v)
why, now you speak
like a good child and a true gentleman.
that i am guiltless of your father's death,
and am most sensible in grief for it,
it shall as level to your judgment pierce
as day does to your eye.
(hamlet act iv, scene v)
now must your conscience my acquaintance seal,
and you must put

Ihave to write a narrative poem for an english assignment, but i cant come up with any topics/ideas for the poem. any topics?

What is the allure of fear? what have you learned from the story about portrayals of fear in literature?

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification