Older animals are usually surly and ill-tempered.- That can be a sentence in itself as well as the second part. Accordingly it is unwise to attempt to pet a grown raccoon. All the semicolon is doing is combining two sentences to make them one.
<em>B. Apollo</em>
He is the <span>god of music, truth and prophecy, healing, the sun and light (this would cover the "rays"), plague, poetry, and more. </span>
Pyramus’s quick action hurries the plot to his tragic death.
The literary device that the author used in the passage is hyperbole. A hyperbole is a figure of speech that uses extreme overstatement or exaggeration to have a humorous, ironic, or heightened dramatic effects.
Example: I am so hungry I could eat an elephant.
Answer:
The title often suggests the message the author wants to send.
Explanation:
the title does not always include the names of main characters, and you obviously cannot tell what to expect from the plot or the tone of the work by a title, so the answer is the title often suggests the message the author wants to send.