11. Which is true of stage fright? a) It gets worse as the speech progresses.
c) It cannot be corrected.
b) It is a serious speaking problem.
d) It causes a decrease in heart rate.

Answer and Explanation:

A) True, if a person has stage fright it is most likely that the person will have many difficulties performing the speech correctly or with confidence. It also may affect the way the audience reacts.

C) False, with enough practice stage fright CAN be corrected, although it may take a while. It's not something that is unfixable.

B) True, stage fright does affect a lot of people and it is a serious speaking problem. Say a random person is put in front of a large, or maybe even a small, crowd and told to perform a speech. It is 77% likely that the person chosen has stage fright. This is because 77% of people have stage fright.

D) False, while stage fright is very scary for most people, it has no affects on a decrease in heart rate.

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the answers are:

1. dolores driscoll - b. first person minor

dolores is a minor character who happens to be driving the bus at the time of the accident. she narrates picking up each of the children and her last memory is the children being thrown around the bus.

2. billy ansel - a. first person major

billy loses his twins in the accident. he tells his own story, how he witnessed the accident and how he tried to the rescuers. he is a major character, as he is at the center of the story.

3. mitchell stephens - c. first person observer

mitchell enters the story after the accident. he is a lawyer who learns about the accident based on other characters observations. though he tells the story from a first person perspective, he is just an observer.

as for matcthing the message or lesson posted with the person who said them:

1."obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. i'm an optimist basically who acts like a pessimist. on principle. just in case." - dolores driscoll

2. "i could no longer believe even in life. . for me now the only reality was death." - billy ansel

shakespeare was famous for writing in iambic pentameter, which is a specific way of rhyming sonnet lines in ten syllables. there are also forms of unrhymed iambic pentameter, as in macbeth, with the noble characters.