What does the alliteration “clasps the crag with crooked hands” in the opening line draw attention to?
a) the difficulty of the bird holding onto the rock b) the size of the rock on which the bird sits c) the tiring body of the old bird d) the sharp and powerful talon of the birds
here is the poem
the eagle by alfred lord tennyson (excerpt) he clasps the crag with crooked hands; close to the sun in lonely lands, ring'd with the azure world, he stands. the wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; he watches from his mountain walls, and like a thunderbolt he falls.

In poem daffodils-how do we know that the yellow daffodils has a long lasting effect on the speaker.

Maria is writing a persuasive essay for her english class. she asks marshall if it is important to use rhetorical appeals in her essay.which reasons could marshall give in favor of using rhetorical appeals

Asap plz which sentence from this excerpt of jefferson davis’s inaugural address indicates that secession was the confederacy’s way of reclaiming its legal powers? an agricultural people, whose chief interest is the export of a commodity required in every manufacturing country, our true policy is peace, and the freest trade which our necessities will permit . . there can be but little rivalry between ours and any manufacturing or navigating community, such as the northeastern states of the american union. it must follow, therefore, that a mutual interest would invite good will and kind offices. if, however, passion or the lust of dominion should cloud the judgment or inflame the ambition of those states, we must prepare to meet the emergency and to maintain, by the final arbitrament of the sword, the position which we have assumed among the nations of the earth. we have entered upon the career of independence, and it must be inflexibly pursued. through many years of controversy with our late associates, the northern states, we have vainly endeavored to secure tranquillity, and to obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. as a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of separation; and henceforth our energies must be directed to the conduct of our own affairs, and the perpetuity of the confederacy which we have formed. if a just perception of mutual interest shall permit us peaceably to pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will have been fulfilled. but, if this be denied to us, and the integrity of our territory and jurisdiction be assailed, it will but remain for us, with firm resolve, to appeal to arms and invoke the blessings of providence on a just cause . .