Explain what the Chorus is saying in this passage: The skilled prophet scans the birds and shatters me with terror! I can't accept him, can't deny
him, don't know what to say, I'm lost, and the wings of dark foreboding
beating- I cannot see what's come, what's still to come... and what
could breed a blood feud between Laius' house and the son of Polybus? |
know of nothing, not in the past and not now, no charge to bring against
our king, no cause to attack his fame that rings throughout Thebes-- not
without proof-not for the ghost of Laius, not to avenge a murder gone
without a trace. *

Which of the following best explains why the author chose the compare-and-contrast structure for paragraph 2

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Why was kennedy concerned about the use of nuclear weapons