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Read this excerpt from Phillis Wheatley's poem "To His Excellency General Washington," and complete the sentence that follows.

Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light,
Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write.
While freedom's cause her anxious breast alarms,
She flashes dreadful in refulgent arms.
See mother earth her offspring's fate bemoan,
And nations gaze at scenes before unknown!
See the bright beams of heaven's revolving light
Involved in sorrows and the veil of night!

The lambic pentameter in the poem creates an even ___
and complements the poem as___

answer :

the idiom "pride goes before a fall" means that being too proud causes one to make mistakes that eventually lead to failure or downfall.

in the stranger's story in the "the storyteller," bertha had won three medals for obedience, punctuality and good manners. she was really proud of her medals and pinned them to her dress and wore them everywhere she went so that everyone would know how good she was. in the end, these symbols of her excessive pride cost her her life. when she was hiding from the wolf in the bushes, it was the clinking of her medals that alerted his attention towards her presence and lead to her death.

throughout his narrative the final assault, edmund hillary states that he keeps checking the men’s oxygen supplies. the oxygen supplies affect the outcome of the narrative because the men have enough oxygen in their bottles, so they are able to complete their climb to the summit of mt. everest.