Which of these is the main idea of the poem? a. take pride in being a human being. b. music makes people happy. c. life is short; laugh and be merry. d. fighting doesn't resolve problems. 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

Select the correct text in the passage. in this excerpt from black beauty by anna sewell, identify the transition word or phrase.

From “the raven” by edgar allan poe but the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only that one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. nothing farther then he uttered—not a feather then he fluttered— till i scarcely more than muttered, “other friends have flown before— on the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.” then the bird said, “nevermore.” in this excerpt, what is the speaker saying the raven will do? a. it will certainly die. b. it will leave immediately. c. it will leave the next day. d. it will befriend the speaker.

The duke and the dauphin lie, cheat, and steal for the purposes of their own survival. answers: •true •false