Read the excerpt from "the great wave: hokusai." it is because the sea is blue, because fuji is blue, because the bent blue men have white faces, like the snow on fuji, like the crest of the wave in the sky the color of their boats. it is because the air is full of writing, because the wave is still: that nothing will harm these frail strangers, that high over fuji in an earthcolored sky the fingers will not fall; and the blue men lean on the sea like snow, and the wave like a mountain leans against the sky. the main subject of the poem is the relationship between and man.

Select the correct text in the passage. which two lines in this excerpt from shakespeare's romeo and juliet foreshadow the tragic fate of romeo and juliet? friar laurence: so smile the heavens upon this holy act, that after hours with sorrow chide us not! romeo: amen, amen! but come what sorrow can, it cannot countervail the exchange of joy that one short minute gives me in her sight: do thou but close our hands with holy words, then love-devouring death do what he dare; it is enough i may but call her mine. friar laurence: these violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite: therefore love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Amy tried to write her essay but she was distracted by the phone ring the sentence above combines a. an independent clayse and a dependent clause b. two independent clauses c. a dependent clause d. none if the above

How do the excerpt and diagram complement one another?