1. Read the lines from "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night." Then onward I sped in the battle, the even-contested battle,

Till late in the night relived to the place at last again I made my way,

What does the use of the phrase "even-contested battle" suggest?

Both sides of the fight have agreed to fight fairly.

There is a clear winner of the battle.

The outcome of the battle is unknown.

Both sides of the fight are equally matched.

2.In "A March in the Ranks Hard-Priest, and the Road Unknown," readers can infer the speaker experiences feelings of helplessness as he surveils the scene inside the church.

Which lines from the poem support this inference?

"Shadows of deepest, deepest black, just lit by moving candles and lamps,"

"Resuming, marching, ever in darkness marching, on in the ranks, / The unknown road still marching."

Antony refers to brutus and his co conspirators as honorable. what effect does the continued repetition of this word have on the tone of the words around it?

Hurry i am on the semester test which theme is evident in this excerpt from robert frost's "mending wall"? but at spring mending-time we find them there. i let my neighbor know beyond the hill; and on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again. we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. my apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. he only says, “good fences make good neighbors." spring is the mischief in me, and i wonder if i could put a notion in his head: "why do they make good neighbors? isn't it where there are cows? but here there are no cows. before i built a wall i'd ask to know what i was walling in or walling out, and to whom i was like to give offence. . " a. the human desire for material gain b. the influence of financial constraints c. the positive effects of friendship d. the uncertain nature of human relations e. the futility of human yearning

In free the children why does the author provide a first-hand account of visiting a brick kiln? to emphasize how factory conditions have improvedto show a group of people wno iqbal escapeto emphasize the homic conditions of debt slaveryto show the place where iqbal was forced to work