Drag the tiles to the correct boxes to complete the pairs. Determine the correct number of feet per line in each of the excerpts.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers

(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “A Psalm of Life”)
That I may rise and stand, o’er throw me, and bend

(John Donne, Holy Sonnet 14)
I stand, and look,
And stoop, and drink

(Thomas Hardy, “The Robin”)
Nor any other wold like Cotswold euer sped,
So faire and rich a Vale by fortuning to wed.

(Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion: “The Fourteenth Song”)
Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;

(A. E. Housman, “A Shropshire Lad” XIII)
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11. why is it important to use positive language in business messages?

Read the excerpt from act 1 of a doll's house. helmer: nora! [goes up to her and takes her playfully by the ear.] the same little featherhead! suppose, now, that i borrowed fifty pounds today, and you spent it all in the christmas week, and then on new year's eve a slate fell on my head and killed me, and— nora: [putting her hands over his mouth]. oh! don't say such horrid things. helmer: still, suppose that happened, —what then? nora: if that were to happen, i don't suppose i should care whether i owed money or not. helmer: yes, but what about the people who had lent it? nora: they? who would bother about them? i should not know who they were. helmer: that is like a woman! but seriously, nora, you know what i think about that. no debt, no borrowing. there can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. we two have kept bravely on the straight road so far, and we will go on the same way for the short time longer that there need be any struggle. nora: [moving towards the stove]. as you , torvald. how does the interaction between helmer and nora advance the plot? nora realizes that helmer will completely disapprove of her having borrowed money, so she has to continue to keep it a secret from him. nora realizes that she and helmer have the same ideas about financial issues, and the conversation brings them closer together later in the play. helmer realizes that nora is more responsible with money than he originally thought, and he trusts her more with finances later in the play. nora realizes that helmer knows a lot more about borrowing and lending, and she will seek his input later when she needs it.

How does this excerpt develop the central idea that espionage during the civil war was often carried out by untrained citizens? it enhances the reader’s understanding by explaining why training was unnecessary. it changes the reader’s perception of what information a spy was able to obtain. it explains an ordinary person’s motivation for conducting espionage against the enemy. it adds moral complexity to espionage, due to the use of secret and dangerous methods.