Answer:
An octave is a verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter (in English) or of hendecasyllables (in Italian).
Explanation:
Internet (youtube for example)
Answer:
A. It is never O.K. to use offensive language or insult someone in a business e-mail or letter.
Explanation:
That'd be unprofessional and offensive.
This question is missing the excerpt. I will not add it here because it is quite long, but the complete question can be easily found online. The excerpt belong to "The Travels of Marco Polo".
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The option that indicates that the author's purpose is to inform readers about travel south of Madagascar and Zanzibar is:
A. The author shares facts and specific details about the difficulty of sailing in the region.
Explanation:
Marco Polo was a Venetian adventurer who lived from 1254 to 1324. "The Travels of Marco Polo" is a book based on his trips and discoveries and written by Rusticiano de Pisa, who met Polo and had the chance to hear the adventurer himself tell the stories.
<u>In the excerpt that can be found online, the author is informing readers about travel south of Madagascar and Zanzibar. The passage is written as it it were Polo himself describing the difficult travel conditions in the region. He provides readers with facts about the currents that prevent ships from going a certain direction. According to him, the currents are always southward. A ship may take 20 days to go a certain way, but three months to return precisely because of the currents.</u>
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The repeated sounds that the poet has used in these lines to create the mood of bleak and despair is alliteration.
Explanation:
Beowulf is an epic poem written in Old English, and one of the earliest surviving text.
In lines 207-210, the poet has used the repeated sounds of alliteration to create the mood of bleak and despair.
Alliteration is a device which repeats the same consonant sound at the beginning of a word in the same sentence.
<u>The words are, in which alliterative sounds are used, 'heavy', 'heart', 'hall.'</u>
The poet creates bleak and despairing mood using these words. Bleak means cold and miserable, whereas, despairing means hopeless. Using repeatitive sounds of alliterative words, the poet manages to create this mood of coldness and hopelessness in lines 207-210.
