The lines that describe the decline and fall of the city are the following:
- These wall-stones are wondrous — calamities crumpled them, these city-sites crashed, the work of giants corrupted.
- The roofs have rushed to earth, towers in ruins.
- The halls of the city once were bright: there were many bath-houses, a lofty treasury of peaked roofs, many troop-roads, many mead-halls filled with human-joys until that terrible chance changed all that.
- Days of misfortune arrived—blows fell broadly—
death seized all those sword-stout men—their idol-fanes were laid waste —the city-steads perished.
- This place has sunk into ruin, been broken into heaps,
Answer and Explanation:
A meaningful drill suitable for teaching students what a substantive clause is would be a list with several sentences where some contain the substantive clause and others do not. In this case, students should identify the sentences that contained the substantive clauses and underline these clauses.
It is important to point out that the noun clause is the dependent clause that replaces the noun, which is the class of words that gives name to any element. An example of this noun clause can be seen in the sentence "She was frightened by the sight in front of her," where the term "the sight in front of her" replaces a noun and is therefore a noun clause.
In addition, it is important to remember that a meaningful drill is an exercise where the resolution depends on the understanding of the subject discussed.
Answer: 
Explanation: Reasoning for my answer would be because on the first answer choice A) it is describing problem solution, for answer choice B) that would be chronological order or sequencing of events, and lastly letter D) is compare and contrast for comparing and contrasting persons, places, or things. But letter C is describing how one event (the cause) leads to another event in the near future that happens (the effect).
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Answer:
An homage to Kirk Douglas's films, where all characters are Kirk Douglas at various stages of his career. The short action takes place in a news room. A young reporter looking for his big chance pleads with his editor to give him a breaking story.
Explanation:
<em>Tempus Fugit </em>seems to be the main thematic message of the poem. In other words the passage of time and how we humans deal with it is at the core of its theme. Therefore a good discussion question would be: how is the passage of time essential to the poem and why?
