Answer:
The starfish on the beach are dead.
Explanation:
In Lorna Dee Cervantes' poem "Starfish", the speaker is vividly describing the beauty of a beach filled with starfish. However, throughout the poem, it is clear that the starfish are no longer alive. They have been "liberated" from the ocean. Several details from the poem provide that information:
[...]
thousands of baby stars. We touched them,
surprised to find them soft, pliant, almost
living in their attitudes. [...]
Together: little martyrs, soldiers, artless suic ides
In lifelong liberation from the Sea [...]
Answer:
Abstract noun is just a word "just" is justice
Maybe you can do a mystery??
Explanation:
The poet has followed the rhyming scheme abcbdd in all the stanzas except the second one. So the last one on your list.
Answer:
B. In the absence of surprise, a witty remark loses much of its humorous effect.
Explanation:
Answer B
Correct. In the first sentence of the third paragraph, the author makes the claim that “merriment” (amusement) can be produced only by “a sudden impression,” that is, a surprise. In the second sentence of the paragraph, the author advances that claim by using the clause “which is expected” to assert that jests (witty remarks) lacking such an element of surprise (because the audience is expecting them) lose much of their humor and are thus effectively “already destroyed.”
