What is the purpose of this passage? a) to relate a humorous story. eliminate b) to describe a famous ocean. c) to tell interesting facts about oceans. d) to explain how people trade on the ocean.

After reading this excerpt, darren makes a text-to-text connection. which example is a text-to-text connection?

"the bane of the internet" is written in first-person subjective point of view, so the narrator a) tells the story as it is happening b)tells the story as it is happened in the past c)is a minor character who tells the story as it is happening d)none of the above

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,    better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.    laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.    laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. (laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain) which of these is the main idea of the poem?