If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;

If you can think – and not make thoughts your
aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same

—“If,”
Rudyard Kipling

Why is the repetition in the first two lines effective?

It warns the reader about the dangers of dreaming and thinking.
It makes the poem longer.
It adds rhyme to the poem.
It stresses the importance of dreaming and thinking carefully.

Read the excerpt from "death by black hole."albert einstein's general theory of relativity, published in 1916, provides the insight to understand the bizarre structureof space and time in a high-gravity environment. later research by the american physicist john a. wheeler, and others, to formulate a vocabulary as well as the mathematical tools to describe and predict what a black hole will do toits surroundings. read the excerpt from "man listening to disc."and i bow deeply to thelonious monkfor figuring out a wayto motorize or whatever-his huge pianoso he could be with us today. these excerpts are similar because both texts

The library carries many current books. what is the adjective

Me ! select the correct answer. which sentence is an oxymoron? a. to have peace, we must go to war. b. a glass can be viewed as either half full or half empty. c. the lawyer was deceptively honest with his clients. d. spies do not dress like spies. e. though the lab was messy, there was a method to his madness.