Identify the gerund in the following sentence. traveling might satisfy your desire for new experiences. a.) desire b.) experiences c.) satisfy d.) traveling could someone also explain what a gerund is? ; ;

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. hedda: it gives me a sense of freedom to know that a deed of deliberate courage is still possible in this world,—a deed of spontaneous beauty. (hedda gabler; act 4; p. 139) hedda’s words here could be considered ironic metaphorical foreshadowings arcastic.

In this excerpt from "dover beach" by matthew arnold, which two lines or sets of lines suggest that the speaker has undergone a loss of faith? the sea of faith was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. but now i only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, retreating, to the breath of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear and naked shingles of the world. ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.

What conclusion can you draw about the cultural values of the iroquois