As you read the paragraph below, think about how you would describe the main character's reaction to the event. Paula had not seen her grandfather for over a year. He had been too sick to travel from his home in New York to see Paula's family in California, though her mother had been to New York a few times. Now Paula just wanted to give her grandfather a huge hug and not let go. And finally he was here, walking up her driveway.

Which next sentence provides the most precise description of Paula's reaction?
A) Paula was content to see her grandfather again.
B) Paula was excited to see her grandfather again.
C) Paula was pleased to see her grandfather again.
D) Paula was thrilled to see her grandfather again.

Antony refers to brutus and his co conspirators as honorable. what effect does the continued repetition of this word have on the tone of the words around it?

What if the author had used “looked at” instead? punishment would be deemphasized. punishments would be seen as less harsh. the meaning wouldn't change.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion