"a valentine" by edgar allan poe for her this rhyme is penned whose luminous eyes, brightly expressive as the twins of leda, shall find her own sweet name, that nestling lies upon the page, enwrapped from every reader. search narrowly the lines! —they hold a treasure divine—a talisman—an amulet that must be worn at heart. search well the measure— the words—the syllables! do not forget the trivialest point, or you may lose your labor and yet there is in this no gordian knot which one might not undo without a sabre, if one could merely comprehend the plot. enwritten upon the leaf where now are peering eyes scintillating soul, there lie perdus three eloquent words oft uttered in the hearing of poets, by poets—as the name is a poet's, too, its letters, although naturally lying like the knight pinto—mendez ferdinando— still form a synonym for truth—cease trying! you will not read the riddle, though you do the best you can do. what does the phrase search narrowly, used in line 5, mean? to look scarcely to look closely to look with decreasing attention to look with increasing attention

What mainly does the text identify as one of alexander pope’s greatest achievements? question 1 options: a) reforming the government to be democratic b) giving art its due importance in europe c) making literature accessible to all d) translating homer’s epics

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.

The voussoirs rest on the centering until the keystone is wedged into place. at that point, the centering can be dismantled. what does the word dismantled mean? a. to take apart b. to put together c. to cover d. to lift up