Which statement best describes the symbolic and figurative meaning in the first line of this excerpt from countee cullen's “from the dark tower”?

we shall not always plant while others reap
the golden increment of bursting fruit,
not always countenance, abject and mute
that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap;

a.)the speaker feels that he will someday trade places and reap while others plant.
b.)the speaker believes that he will one day share equally in the fruits of human labor.
c.)the speaker envisions a time when everyone will receive equal amounts of work and leisure.
d.)the speaker longs for a future without immense poverty and hardships.

What does the author see as the main cause for why students don’t really see shakespeare as a real, flawed human being? we shouldn’t shy away from discussing our literary heroes’ flaws. if nothing else, the knowledge of their failures us appreciate what success and greatness these authors did achieve. often our hero-worship keeps us from truly seeing the complexity of a great author. thus, i would argue, nothing would be better for high school students than to take shakespeare down a peg or two. a) the fact that students never learn enough about shakespeares biography b) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s comedies while in school c) the fact that students are never assigned to read any shakespeare while in high school d) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s greatest works in school and thus never see his weaknesses

You have to go. you have to, yer the only doctor. go ahead on, you," bruh fox say. big doc rabbit went down to the brook again. the water was so cool and ribbly and it kept the crock of cream so fresh and cold. doc rabbit drank about half of the cream this time. then he went back up to brother fox with the hard labor of raisin the roof. heard tell about this phrase remind readers that these stories were usually told, not read. which line from the excerpt is an example of personification?

Match each excerpt to the epic characteristics it contains