Why is pacing important in a text? a. it develop ideas and mood at the appropriate speed. b. it is necessary in creating believable character archetypes. c. it to identify examples of inductive reasoning. d. it is necessary in creating correct parallel structure.

Match each description to the correct poetic form. sometimes consists of three 1)stages: lament, praise, and consolation 2)a type of lyrical poem 3)a poem that was originally meant to be sung 4) a poem written to pay tribute to someone who has died match to: ode elegy

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the imagery and word choice in the second stanza creates a tone of liveliness and joy danger and gloom silence and peace anger and hostility

How does the play resolve the conflict between conscience and law? creon acts according to the law, not the conscience of advisors, and is punished. each character chooses familial loyalty over civil obedience and is punished. the deaths of haemon and eurydice fulfill the prophecy. creon sentences antigone to death even though haemon asks him to reconsider.