Select the best paraphrase of the following sentence from the passage according to mla guidelines. with their main source of income gone, the irish had to live in poor conditions, where diseases spread unchecked. a. with no potatoes, rural farmers and their families lost much of their earnings. they were forced into poverty, and diseases became far more common (murray 4). b. one disease that was common during the great irish famine was typhus. typhus is a bacterial infection that is usually spread by lice or fleas (murray 4). c. with their main source of income gone, peasants had to live in poor conditions, where diseases spread wildly (murray 4). d. the irish lost their main source of income and had to live in poor conditions, where diseases spread unchecked (murray 4).

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet