Read the excerpt from act ii, scene iii of romeo and juliet. benvolio: here comes romeo, here comes romeo. 20 mercutio: without his roe, like a dried herring. o flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified! now is he for the numbers that petrarch flowed in: laura to his lady was but a kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to be-rime her; dido a dowdy; cleopatra a gipsy; helen and hero hildings and harlots; thisbe, a grey eye or so, but not to the purpose. signior romeo, bon jour! there’s a french salutation to your french slop. you gave us the counterfeit fairly last night. romeo: good morrow to you both. what counterfeit did i give you? mercutio: the slip, sir, the slip; can you not conceive? how does mercutio offer comic relief in this excerpt? by explaining romantic figures from history by speaking in different languages by refusing to treat romeo’s romance seriously by complaining about his own love interest

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.

Critical reading what do you think keats means in these lines from "when i have fears that i may cease to be"? i may never live to trace / their shadows, with the magic hand of chance a. i may never live to paint pictures of them. b. i may never have a chance to look at them again. c. i may never leave the shadows as long as i live. d. i may never live to write about them. select the best answer from the choices provided

In charlotte web, what compliment did charlotte pay to wilbur