Read the excerpt from "The Darkling Thrush."The tangled bine-stems scored the sky, Like strings from broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh, Had sought their household fires. Which option accurately uses the word scored as it is used in this sentence?A. The soccer player ran swiftly and dodged the opposing team; skillfully, he scored the team's first goal.
B. Her gymnastics routine was filled with both skills and grace, and the judges scored her appropriately.
C. The band's first song was an instant hit; following its release the band scored numerous awards and promotional deals.
D. Cracks scored the concrete sidewalk, forcing the boys to skateboard carefully to school.

D. Cracks scored the concrete sidewalk, forcing the boys to skateboard carefully to school

Explanation:

The Darkling Thrush” is the article introduced in this question — it is a poem by Thomas Hardy the English poet and novelist.

The poem paints the picture of a world that is desolated, with the poem’s narrator and such focused on the cause of despair and hopelessness. 

The phrase ‘The tangled bine-stems scored the sky like strings of broken lyres’ is on the 5th and 6th line of the poem.

The use of the word ‘scored’ tells us what writer of the poem sees is destruction — as he stares at the ‘bine-stems. A simile indicating article "like" is key that helps compares the ‘bine-stems’ to ‘strings of broken lyres’ implying that that there is despair, no happiness, hopelessness or no music. Seems everything is just dead

Substituting "scored" with "like" in the context above we see that a"Cracks on roads like sidewalks does call for skaters to be careful.

the answer is irony!

the play romeo and juliet was one of the most famous love tragedies ever written. this love story unfortunately had a fatal ending. many people argue over why the lovers had died, was it over free will or fate?  

the death of romeo and juliet was partially because of free will. the fact that romeo and juliet got married knowing that there was a bitter feud between their families, the montague and capulet’s. this feud brought on many problems, such as the murder of tybalt by romeo. juliet knew that this might be a problem for her and romeo. juliet had said: “what’s in a name”? which explains her ill fate of being a capulet and romeo being a montague. when romeo tells his servant “ ay, mine own…show more content…

i believe they had died over the love they had for each other, strong enough that their lives could end so suddenly if something horrible had come between them, and that was exactly how it happened. this tragedy occurred within five days of the two meeting, they experienced love at first sight, got married and quickly were dead. free will became a part of this when juliet decided to take friar laurence’s advise in inhaling a potion that will make people assume she is died but will awake in 42 hours prier to when she took it. when romeo had heard the news that juliet was dead, he assumed it was true, and responded with the line; “well juliet, i will lay with thee tonight”. to me this line indicated how he feels for juliet by dying in her will. the fact that free will didn’t take control of the story; it left fate to be the murder of the lovers. fate first kicked in when their eyes met at the capulet party. when romeo and juliet spoke, their words had powerful contentment; they had such a strong feeling for one another that they could lay in each other’s arms forever. their happiness didn’t last long; there were many reasons for this, for example; the marriage lord capulet arranged between paris and juliet. i believe that the plot of the play thus far leads the audience to believe that the deaths were a result of fate. the last act will determine once and for all if it is fate or free will. romeo again challenges fate.

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