"a valentine" by edgar allan poe for her this rhyme is penned whose luminous eyes, brightly expressive as the twins of leda, shall find her own sweet name, that nestling lies upon the page, enwrapped from every reader. search narrowly the lines! —they hold a treasure divine—a talisman—an amulet that must be worn at heart. search well the measure— the words—the syllables! do not forget the trivialest point, or you may lose your labor and yet there is in this no gordian knot which one might not undo without a sabre, if one could merely comprehend the plot. enwritten upon the leaf where now are peering eyes scintillating soul, there lie perdus three eloquent words oft uttered in the hearing of poets, by poets—as the name is a poet's, too, its letters, although naturally lying like the knight pinto—mendez ferdinando— still form a synonym for truth—cease trying! you will not read the riddle, though you do the best you can do. read these lines from the poem and answer the following question. the trivialest point, or you may lose your labor and yet there is in this no gordian knot which one might not undo without a sabre, if one could merely comprehend the plot. "knot" and "plot" are examples of which poetic device? alliteration connotation denotation rhyme

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion