Quatrain - A stanza with four lines. It usually has a rhyme that is the same in the last letter of every line. Here’s an example of a quatrain from "Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening" By Robert Frost.

"He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there’s some mistake.

The only other sound’s the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake."

Couplet - A pair of two lines in a stanza with the same end rhyme. Here’s an example of a couplet from "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Suess.

"I do not like green eggs and ham

I do not like them Sam I am."

Octave - A stanza with eight lines in it. Here’s an example of an octave from "What is life?" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

"Resembles Life what once was held of Light,

Too ample in itself for human sight?

An absolute Self, an element ungrounded

All, that we see, all colours of all shade

By encroach of darkness made?

Is very life by consciousness unbounded?

And all the thoughts, pains, joys of mortal breath,

A war-embrace of wrestling Life and Death?"

Sestet - Usually the last six lines of a sonnet. Here’s an example of a sestet from "When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be" by John Keats

"And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!

That I shall never look upon thee more,

Never have relish in the faery power

Of unreflecting love! — then on the shore

Of the wide world I stand alone, and think

Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink."

Now that we all understand the definitions and have read a few examples, let’s match each tile to its pair.

The tile from "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe should be paired with sestet.

The tile from "In Memoriam" by Alfred Lord Tennyson should be paired with quatrain.

The tile from "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost should be paired with octave.

The tile from "Hero and Leander" by Christopher Marlowe should be paired with couplet.

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Which three logical predictions can be made after reading this passage? General Zaroff will die in his sleep that night. General

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General Zaroff will go hunting.Rainsford will hunt with General Zaroff.Rainsford will try to leave the island

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When the conflict is person vs nature what determines the outcome?

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How nature and the man act

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What does Claudius mean by the last line in Act III, Scene 3? Explain your answer using textual evidence.

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Claudius wanted the crown, wanted Queen Gertrude as his own, and sought to fulfill his own ambition through his violent acts. He isn't sure if he can be forgiven of his sins because he is unwilling to give up any of these things. Therefore, he feels that he can't truly repent (which is to turn away from sin and head in a different direction) and that his heart is "black as death."

Nevertheless, Claudius drops to his knees to pray, hoping that "all may be well." Watching from a distance, Hamlet knows that he has his answer but can't kill him in an act of prayer, believing that doing so would send his father's murderer straight to Heaven.

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