The Skaters Black swallows swooping or gliding
In a furry of entangled loops and curves.
The skaters sklm over the frozen river.
And the grinding click of their skates as they impinge upon the surface.
Is like the brushing together of thin wing-tips of silver.
("The Skaters" by John Gould Petcher)
Which describes the extended metaphor that the poet develops?
1. The poet compares skating to the process of making jewelry,
2. The poet compares skaters to people who are knitting with yarn.
3. The poet compares the motion and sound of skaters to that of birds.
O 4 The poet compares the figures skaters make to those made by artists

Read the excerpt from act 4, scene 1, of the tragedy of julius caesar. [exit lepidus] antony. this is a slight, unmeritable man, meet to be sent on errands. is it fit, the three-fold world divided, he should stand one of the three to share it? octavius. so you thought him, and took his voice who should be p to die, in our black sentence and proscription. antony. octavius, i have seen more days than you. and though we lay these honors on this man. to ease ourselves of divers sland’rous loads, he shall but bear them as the a** bears gold, to groan and sweat under the business, either led or driven as we point the way; and having brought our treasure where we will, then take we down his load, and turn him off, like to the empty a**, to shake his ears and graze in commons. what does this interaction reveal about antony’s character? select two options. he feels like he is getting old. he values the efforts of his peers. his opinion of beasts of burden is low. he presents a false demeanor to others. he is ambitious for himself and his friends.