The following question is based on your reading of “Life is a Dream." Read the following passage, then answer the questions that follow. "And in such alienation grown so old / As leaves no other hope
of heir to Poland/Than his two sisters' children; you, fair cousin, / And me; for whom the Commons of the realm / Divide
themselves into two several factions; / Whether for you, the elder sister's child; / Or me, born of the younger, but, they say, / My
natural prerogative of man/Outweighing your priority of birth."
a
What important conflict is Astolfo alluding to?
He wants to marry Estrella, but she doesn't want to C. There is no conflict because Segismund will be
marry him.
king.
b. They are arguing over who will be king.
d. Without a named successor, there could be a civil
war.

How does shakespeare transform the myth of phoebus and daphne to dramatize this theme?

Which two passages in this excerpt from the death of ivan illych does leo tolstoy use to suggest that ivan ilych feels like his life is slipping away from him? "what's the use? it makes no difference," he said to himself, staring with wide-open eyes into the darkness. "death. yes, death. and none of them knows or wishes to know it, and they have no pity for me. now they are playing." (he heard through the door the distant sound of a song and its accompaniment.) "it's all the same to them, but they will die too! fools! i first, and they later, but it will be the same for them. and now they are merry . . the beasts! " anger choked him and he was agonizingly, unbearably miserable. "it is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror! " he raised himself. "something must be wrong. i must calm myself—must think it all over from the beginning." and he again began thinking. "yes, the beginning of my illness: i knocked my side, but i was still quite well that day and the next. it hurt a little, then rather more. i saw the doctors, then followed despondency and anguish, more doctors, and i drew nearer to the abyss. my strength grew less and i kept coming nearer and nearer, and now i have wasted away and there is no light in my eyes.

Which poems include the theme that memories of beautiful natural places benefit the people who recall them? "to spring" and "lines written in early spring" "to autumn" and "to a butterfly" "to summer" and "the human seasons" "i wandered lonely as a cloud" and "lines on a beautiful spring in a village"