Select the correct answer. Which choice best provides an objective summary of the excerpt?

A. The "tour of the world" has hit all the headlines in England including the
Times, Standard, Morning Post, Daily News, and 20 other highly respectable
newspapers.

B. The headlines in England mainly criticize the "tour of world" as ridiculous and
impossible due to all the obstacles that Phileas Fogg will face from both
humans and nature.

C. Phileas Fogg's "tour of the world" is a popular topic throughout England. It is
being praised by some, but most declare he foolish to embark on such a
dangerous quest.

D. Phileas Fogg plans a "tour of the world," but it seems that he has lofty ideas
about his ability to complete it, as most of England thinks he is foolish and
ridiculous.

Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.

Edgar allan poe uses many sound devices in his poem "the bells." which two words from the poem are examples of onomatopoeia?

Why does the narrator come to the house of usher