I would say that the lines which show us how desperate the poet is are the following:
"... helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite--"
As you can see here, the poet says he is helpless, meaning that he cannot find inspiration to write what he wants to write. Therefore he is desperate for some inspiration, which is why he is biting his truant pen in order to show how anxious he is to get his inspiration back.
The following sentence is a run-on: The Merchant of Venice is an interesting play it is about a young man named Bassanio, who falls in love with wealthy girl, Portia.
It should be re-written the following way:
The Merchant of Venice is an interesting play. It is about a young man named Bassanio, who falls in love with wealthy girl, Portia.
The sentence is two sentences fused together as one, which makes it a run-on and also difficult to read. When the proper punctuation is used the sentence is no longer a run-on and is then easier to comprehend.
The answer is:
<em>Yesterday</em><em>, Darius went to the store </em><em>because </em><em>he wanted food. </em><em>At that moment,</em><em> he ran into his teacher there </em><em>and </em><em>they talked about his latest project </em><em>for a long time</em><em>. </em><em>When he arrived home</em><em>, he decided to base his project on gourmet cooking.</em>
Transitions connect ideas between sentences and paragraphs, providing cohesion and showing how different concepts relate to one another. Temporal transitions express time, frequency and duration, as well as introduce a beginning, a middle and a closure.
Answer:
paragraph 1- Smoking is bad for the nation's health (but lots of people still do it).
paragraph 2- Smoking is bad for the economy.
paragraph 3- Smoking is largest single cause of avoidable death.
paragraph 4- Other uses of tobacco are also deadly.
paragraph 5- Smoking is dangerous for nonsmokers as well.
paragraph 6- People need to stop smoking; We need to renew efforts to get people to stop smoking.
Explanation:
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Aramis was the forth musketeer
