Read the excerpt and then answer the question that follows. “When shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”
“When the hurly-burly's done, When the battle's lost and won.” What is the purpose of these opening lines? A. They introduce the title character. B. They establish the central theme. C. They foreshadow the plot. D. They describe the setting.
The sentence "When the battle lost and won" tells the reader than a war is going on right now. This foreshadows the plot because we know what "The three" will soon meet up again in different circumstances. We are just waiting to know what circumstances. We don't have an idea an exact idea of what happens in the future, but we can tell that "the three" will once again meet up once the battle's "lost and won."
