Answer: The verb would be ¨were¨.
Explanation:
Tragedy is a specific form of literature made popular by the Greeks. Fate and character can contribute to the fall of the tragic hero, though some tragedies emphasis one more than the other. Tragedy includes a tragic hero who suffers a downfall because of a character flaw or moral failing. Romeo and Juliet is a good example of tragedy of fate. Romeo and Juliet are meant to be together, but their families keep them apart. The death of the young lovers is the tragic result of this human pettiness. Macbeth is an example of tragedy of character. Macbeth becomes blinded by his ambitious, committing an evil act, leading him to his own eventual downfall. The story includes an element of the hero trying to work against fate.
"Stoop from your cold height, Helen Grey, Come down, and take a lowlier place; Come down, to fill it now with grace; Come down you must perforce some day: For years cannot be kept at bay, And fading years will make you old; Then in their turn will men seem cold, When you yourself are nipped and grey" .<u>It's saying that he needs to get off his high perch or no one will love him and he will grow to be old and alone.</u>
Answer:
a. Allusion.
Explanation:
Allusions are the use of literary device that uses an indirect way of addressing an issue without the use of any direct reference. Martin Luther King in his now famous speech "I Have A Dream" talks of many allusions. One of these allusions is the excerpt provided in the question -
<em>"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation."
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alludes to the Emancipation proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Saluting the effort of the then President, King alludes to the time when all slaves were freed by this. He also promises to continue to work for the same issue that President Lincoln had done.
