Read the passage. excerpt from act iii, scene 1, in a midsummer night's dream by william shakespeare titania i pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again. mine ear is much enamored of thy note, so is mine eye enthrallèd to thy shape, and thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move me on the first view to say, to swear, i love thee. what is the tone in this excerpt and how does the language create it? formal tone: it has a formal sentence structure and uses thee and thy instead of you. informal: it uses words like thee, which would only be used in an informal situation. informal tone: it has no rhyming lines. formal tone: it uses iambic pentameter.

On one hand, i aspire to an ivy league vocation: 1 professor of the sciences in higher education. 2 but like noble amphibians that thrive on land and in the stream, 3 i've got another world of which i like to gladly dream. 4 some say that it's abnormal; my affections are exclusive. 5 in science, they say, emotions are something quite elusive. 6 line 3 exemplifies which kind of figurative language? a) hyperbole b) metaphor c) onomatopoeia d) simile

Marianne moore’s “poetry” is written in defense of poetry. in the excerpts, which three lines or phrases reflect moore’s opinion of what good poetry should be? . . to discriminate against "business documents and school-books"; all these phenomena are important. one must make a distinction however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination" —above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it. in the meantime, if you demand on the one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry.

Edgar allan poe focuses on creating a single effect in his works. what single effect does he create in "the fall of the house of usher"? fear pusslement mystery annoyance