In “old ironsides,” oliver wendell holmes conveys that he believes the ship deserves a better ending than it is getting. what does he mean when he writes, “and give her to the god of storms / the lightning and the gale”?
a. the ship should be stripped and used to build a new one.
b. let the ship sink at sea, rather than suffer humiliating demolition.
c. the ship should be put in a museum for others to visit and admire.
d. an enemy should destroy the ship in the course of battle.

Read this excerpt from "a visit from the goon squad."that’s when he began singing the songs he’d been writing for years underground, songs no one had ever heard, or anything like them—“eyes in my head,” “x’s and o’s,” “who’s watching hardest”—ballads of paranoia and disconnection ripped from the chest of a man you knew just by looking had never had a page or a profile or a handle or a handset, who was part of no one’s data, a guy who had lived in the cracks all these years, forgotten and full of rage, in a way that now registered as pure. untouched. how does the author use satire in this excerpt? the author is criticizing media censorship. the author is criticizing the idea of isolationism. the author is mocking society’s overuse of technology. the author is mocking man’s inability to freely express himself.