These are the answers for questions 40 through 42:
40-B. “… blossoming like silver petals...” (line 48)
41-C. “Instead more than a million came to marvel at the titanium-clad miracle” (lines 64 and 65)
42-B. “Their master plan included a first-class musseum, so original that it would attract worldwide attention and rescue their town from its slow decline” (lines 6 through 8)
Answer:
O C. People must use their mistakes to build a better future.
Explanation:
A theme of a speech or a text is the main idea of the given text that the author wants to relay to the readers/ audience. In other words, we can say the theme of a speech is the main purpose of the speaker.
Among the given sentences, sentence C best represents a speech's theme. This is because the statement that <em>"people must use their mistakes to build a better future"</em> revolves around the overall idea of learning from past mistakes and getting better through the lessons learned.
Thus, the correct answer is option C.
Penelope, the weaver, is a literary reference to fidelity.
While Odysseus is absent, Penelope is pretended by several men, who settle in the palace and nastily eat her banquets, while waiting for the queen to choose one of them. To maintain her fidelity, Penelope tells the suitors that she will accept a new husband when she finishes weaving a shroud for King Laertes, on whom she was working. To prolong this task as long as possible, Penelope undoes at night what she weaves during the day, however, a woman betrays her an tell the other men, so she is forced to finish the job. Odysseus returns just in time, killing the suitors .
Is this for English??? If so is this a poem assignment?