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What is personification commonly found in what types of liturature
mostly common in poetry..especially ballads.
What is the rhyme scheme of i am offering you this poem by jimmy santiago baca
Which statement best interprets the meaning of the supreme court decision in Gibbions v Ogden
Answer this question…Don't
When does Auden feel that suffering usually takes place
When people are doing ordinary things, such as eating or walking (apex)
Which element from Audens Musée des Beaux arts represents human suffering
The drowning of Icarus (Apex)
Why would Auden only mention Icarus briefly in the second half of musee des beaux arts
Because it puts the focus on the meaning of suffering in the reader's life instead of on Icarus's story
What is the chief clerk's reaction to seeing gregor for the first time after gregor's transformation
What interpretation is a possible theme of Ovid's The Story of Daedalus and Icarus
Reaching too high can be the cause of your eventual downfall. [APEX]
What does Kafka's use of the German word for vermin represent according to scholars
The Persecution felt by Jewish people, such as Kafka, in eastern europe
Which statement best describes a similarity between a democracy and a republic
Citizens in a democracy can either directly or indirectly influence the government, while citizens in a republic can only indirectly influence government through elected officials.
In "Musée des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden, what do the people on the ship do after they see Icarus fall into the sea
They do nothing, and the ship continues on its way. [APEX]
Where does Icarus drown in Pieter Brueghel's painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Close to a passing ship. [APEX]
In Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts," Williams's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," and Brueghel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus all share which theme
Life goes on while someone is suffering. [APEX]
In "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," how does William Carlos Williams quicken the pace of the poem
By not using any punctuation. [APEX]
In Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" uses Icarus's drowning as an example of which element of human nature
In "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," what word does Williams use to make Icarus's drowning seem unimportant
How are Brueghel's painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus and Ovid's "The Story of Daedalus and Icarus" similar
Both show Icarus drowning after the wax holding his wings together has melted. [APEX]
How does Williams set up a contrast between birth and death in "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
By telling the reader that "it was spring". [APEX]
Which statement is the best example of an interpretation
Williams is making a statement about death in general. [APEX]
What element appears in Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" but is excluded in Williams's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
The ship that watched Icarus fall. [APEX]
What does Brueghel's painting include that isn't mentioned in Ovid's original myth about Icarus
How are W. H. Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and William Carlos Williams's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" similar
Both poems focus on how Icarus's death is ignored. [APEX]
If you have to: Click to read "miss rosie" by Lucille Clifton. Then answer the question.Which lines from the poem best support the theme that people can learn from others' struggles
through your destruction / I stand up [APEX]
Which feature is commonly found in odes
Deep praise of a specific subject. [APEX]
which event from the metamorphosis by franz kafka is mostly likely the climax of the story