Over the centuries the story has been told and retold and told again, often with a widely varying cast of characters. knights, priests and priestesses, kings and queens, and various users of magic come and go, but always there is arthur, the sun around which all else revolves, his faithless wife (guinevere), his equally-faithless best friend (lancelot), the illegitimate son (mordred) who becomes his bane—and merlin. whatever his role, merlin is always there, and it is always clear that arthur could not have existed, survived, or become king without him.
source: bradley, marion zimmer. “the once and future merlin.” fictionwise. com. fictionwise llc, n. d. web. 7 july 2011.
which organizational type dominates the passage?
comparison/contrast
spatial
order of importance
chronological

Read the stanza below from the poem “tattoo” by gregg shapiro and answer the question that follows. if i could trade places with him i would pad the rest of his days wrap him in gauze and velvet absorb the shocks and treat his wounds i would scrub the numbers from his flesh extinguish the fire and give him back his life what does shapiro use to create the conceit in the lines above? a) he carries one line of poetry onto the next. b) he paints vivid word pictures that trigger the imagination by appealing to the five senses. c) he directly expresses a metaphor using like, as, or than. d) he uses physical protection to represent emotional protection.

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In the poem, collins compares his love to a pigeon on a generals head