Read the excerpts from Ovid’s Pyramus and Thisbe and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. "Pyramus and Thisbe"

They had no confidant—and so used signs:
with these each lover read the other's mind:
when covered, fire acquires still more force.

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo: She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow
Do I live dead that live to tell it now.

Benvolio: Be ruled by me, forget to think of her.

Romeo: O, teach me how I should forget to think.

Benvolio: By giving liberty unto thine eyes;
Examine other beauties.

Which statement best describes the difference between these excerpts?

In about two hundred words, explain how the literary devices used in the novel convey theme.

Read this excerpt from holes. a patrol car pulled alongside him. a policeman asked him why he was running. then he took the shoes and made a call on his radio. shortly thereafter, stanley was arrested. it turned out the sneakers had been stolen from a display at the homeless shelter. that evening rich people were going to come to the shelter and pay a hundred dollars to eat the food that the poor people ate every day for free. clyde livingston, who had once lived at the shelter when he was younger, was going to speak and sign autographs. his shoes would be auctioned, and it was expected that they would sell for over five thousand dollars. all the money would go to the homeless. why does sachar include this description of the shoes in the flashback? a. to show where the shoes came from b. to show how valuable the shoes were c. to reveal why stanley was arrested d. to give background on the homeless shelter

Frankenstein: what attitudes toward education are expressed by shelley in her description of victor’s upbringing in chapter 1? what, for example, motivates victor and elizabeth to study/practice?