The fishermen were most successful catching salmon if they traveled further out to sea. at one hundred fathoms they knew they were in the deep waters that salmon preferred. based on the clues in this passage, which of the following would be a good definition for the word fathoms? a. small plant or animal life found in water b. a unit of length equal to six feet c. streaks or spots d. flow marked by force or strength

What does this excerpt from act of romeo and juliet reveal about lord montague?

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion

Asymbol always — a. gives human qualities to nonhuman things b. uses a connective word such as like or as c. stands both for itself and for something else d. presents an apparent contradiction that is actually true