Read this line from shakespeare's sonnet 130. "my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun." what sound devices are employed here? a. assonance and alliteration b. simile and assonance c. onomatopoeia and alliteration d. alliteration and assonance how is donne's poem about death, "holy sonnet x," thematically typical of metaphysical poetry? a. the poem addresses the meaning of human existence. b. the poem has a lighthearted, witty approach. c. the poem deals with universal questions about love. d. the poem builds its idea through the petrarchan form. read these lines from andrew marvell's "to his coy mistress." "and your quaint honour turn to dust, and into ashes all my lust: the grave's a fine and private place, but none, i think, do there embrace." what is marvell's tone? a. lighthearted and witty b. sincere and somber c. curious and concerned d. jealous and bitter

B, A, and B are the correct answers.

Explanation:

1. A simile is an explicit comparison between two things, indicated by using the words like or as; the speaker compares the mistress' ayes and the sun. Alliteration is a type of repetition: in a phrase, several words that are close in a clause start with the same consonant sound, as in My mistress'.

2. John Donne was an English poet, the most important of the metaphysical ones. Holy Sonnet X discusses topics related to human existence, such as death and fate.

3. Andre Marvell was a satiric writer and poet from England. In the excerpt, the sincere and somber tone can be seen by the words quaint honor to dust or into ashes all my dust.

the answers are:

1. dolores driscoll - b. first person minor

dolores is a minor character who happens to be driving the bus at the time of the accident. she narrates picking up each of the children and her last memory is the children being thrown around the bus.

2. billy ansel - a. first person major

billy loses his twins in the accident. he tells his own story, how he witnessed the accident and how he tried to the rescuers. he is a major character, as he is at the center of the story.

3. mitchell stephens - c. first person observer

mitchell enters the story after the accident. he is a lawyer who learns about the accident based on other characters observations. though he tells the story from a first person perspective, he is just an observer.

as for matcthing the message or lesson posted with the person who said them:

1."obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. i'm an optimist basically who acts like a pessimist. on principle. just in case." - dolores driscoll

2. "i could no longer believe even in life. . for me now the only reality was death." - billy ansel