How do the characters contribute to the development of the central idea in Part A? The speaker worries over the effect of elves on the wall. His neighbor worries over the effect of hunters on the wall.

The speaker worries that his apple orchard will interfere with his neighbor's pine trees. His neighbor does not worry about apples falling from the orchard.

The speaker urges his neighbor to invest in cattle to support the wall. His neighbor wants a wall regardless of livestock.

The speaker believes that it is important to know what is being walled in or walled out. His neighbor believes that, regardless of the reason, good fences make good neighbors.

Study the editorial cartoon mars probe by mike keefe. how does the alien with the baseball bat contribute to the effectiveness of the political cartoon? it suggests that aliens are like people because they play baseball, a human sport. it uses humor to show that unknown factors keep damaging the probes humans send. it shows how to cope with the surface of mars, which is rocky and full of craters. it exaggerates the size of the bat in relation to the mars probe in the cartoon.

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.

You often figure out what a word means by looking at the surrounding ideas, and this is also known as: using peripheral vision using common concepts using context clues using a dictionary