Which best summarizes the events from the poem contained in these lines? "To all the earlmen after evenlight's glimmer
'Neath heaven's bright hues hath hidden its glory.
This my earls then urged me, the most excellent of them,
Carles very clever, to come and assist thee,
Folk-leader Hrothgar; fully they knew of
The strength of my body."

The king asked Beowulf to travel to his kingdom to slay Grendel.

Beowulf's countrymen encouraged him to help defeat Grendel.

Stories of Grendel's strength were told throughout Hrothgar's lands.

The most clever men in the kingdom set out to kill Grendel.

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Read the following excerpt from patrick henry's march 23, 1775, speech: if we wish to be free-if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending-if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained- we must fight! which statement best explains how patrick henry uses parallelism in the passage to influence the audience? a. henry carefully lists the principles that all the colonists follow, principles that their british rulers do not share. b. the repetition of the word "fight" is meant to stir up the listeners' violent hatred of the british. ) c. by constantly referring to "we," henry makes it obvious that both he and the audience must sue for peace together. o d. repeating the words "if we" emphasizes the number of values that henry and the audience have in common.