Which represents the most appropriate tone to use if writing a message to a professional video gamer on an online forum for gamers?
a) yo! let me holler at you real quick bro. you gotta break off for me why you are so good.
b) i am wishing to write a message to you about your superb game play. what is your secret?
c) hello! i am a big fan of yours and would like to know how you got so good. what's your secret?
d) pardon my inquisitiveness, but may i pose a question? how have you achieved such a high level of success?

Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich suggests that ivan ilyich felt his family and friends didn’t understand him and neglected him?

The courage that my mother had went with her, and is with her still: rock from new england quarried; now granite in a granite hill. the golden brooch my mother wore she left behind for me to wear; i have no thing i treasure more: yet, it is something i could spare. oh, if instead she'd left to me the thing she took into the grave! - that courage like a rock, which she has no more need of, and i have. based on the 2nd stanza, how does the speaker feel about the golden brooch that was passed down from the mother to child? question 2 options: a: the speaker thinks it was a waste of money b: the speaker places a high value on the item c: the speaker never wears the brooch d: the speaker feels it could be easily replaced

The limerick and the tongue twister are two types of verse. a) nonsense b) articulation c) declaration d) interrogation