Read the last stanza from "To a Mouse" by Robert Burns. Still, thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me!
The present only toucheth thee:
But Och! I backward cast my e’e,
On prospects drear!
An’ forward tho’ I canna see,
I guess an’ fear!

How are the mouse and the speaker different?
A
The speaker can see the past and future, and is therefore more fortunate.
B
The mouse is less fortunate than the speaker because the mouse has had his home destroyed.
C
The mouse is more fortunate than the speaker because he can easily move to a different home.
D
The mouse only cares about the present while the speaker can remember his past and fear the future.

Which sentence is an effective example of i-language for the following scenario? aaron's coworker bryce has not been working on the team project their boss assigned them. answer choices: "i need you to do some work on this project." "i feel like this assignment isn't a priority to you." "i wish you wouldn't be so casual about this." "i think you're incompetent."

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.i ask, gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? in this excerpt from his famous virginia convention speech, patrick henry employs which literary device? questiondeclarative statement

Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.