Read the excerpt below and answer the question.  a gown made of the finest wool which from our pretty lambs we pull; fair lined slippers for the cold, with buckles of the purest gold; (“the passionate shepherd to his love”; lines 13-16)   which statements explain the use of literary techniques in the passage to create an idealized portrait of rural lifestyles? select all that apply.   images that communicate wealth, like “finest wool” and “purest gold”  a contrast between the corruption of city life and the comfort of the country  a metaphor that compares life in the country to the “purest gold”  choice of words with positive connotations, like “purest”; “gold”; “fair”; “pretty”; and “finest”

In this excerpt from "dover beach" by matthew arnold, which two lines or sets of lines suggest that the speaker has undergone a loss of faith? the sea of faith was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. but now i only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, retreating, to the breath of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear and naked shingles of the world. ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.

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