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Read this story.
One afternoon a fox was walking through the forest and spotted a bunch of red,
juicy grapes hanging from a high branch. "Those look delicious," he said. He
decided to jump up and grab them for a snack. Taking a few steps back, the fox
jumped, but he missed the grapes. "Rats!" he said. He took even more steps
back, ran, and jumped again. But again, he missed the grapes. "One more try,"
he said. This time he took even more steps back, ran as fast as he could, and
jumped with all his might! But yet again, he could not reach the grapes. "Well."
the fox said, turning up his nose, "they're probably sour anyway," and with that
he walked away.
Which of these statements best expresses the theme of the story?
O A. Be happy with what you have.
O B. Overreaching can be dangerous.
O C. It is easy to hate what you cannot have.
O D. The key to happiness is following your dreams.

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man