Answer:
1. I may not be able to jog today, as I am feeling a bit under the weather.
2. At the start of the lecture, the new professor tried to break the ice by telling a joke.
3. I will be on cloud nine when my articles get published.
Explanation:
When someone says they are feeling under the weather, it means they are not feeling well.
When someone says to break the ice, it means to get a conversation going or to relieve the tension in a social setting.
When someone says they are on cloud nine, it means they are super happy.
On the second line explains that American people are both blithe and strong means being merry and at the same time strong.
ANSWER: a. tragedy.
EXPLANATION: Many of William Shakespeare's writings were tragedies. His romantic writings were released at a later stage in his career and was either classified as a tragedy or a comedy. Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, Antony and Cleopatra are few of the tragedy plays of Shakespeare.
He got it for creating new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition