Use the passage to answer questions 1-7 Which is the best prediction of what will happen after Nestor's speech in selection 1? Base your answer on the selection and on your knowledge of the epic
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The Greeks will battle the Trojans, vanquishing them even though all the gods favor Troy.
The Greeks will negotiate a peaceful end to the war, rejecting the traditional Greek value of glory in battle.
The Greeks will battle the Trojans, aided by the gods who favor them but opposed by the gods they have offended
O The Greeks will negotiate a peaceful end to the war, discouraged by their discovery that Agamemnon, Achilles, and Nestor lack heroic qualities
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(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

Once you have finished revising your peer’s essay, continue to demonstrate your understanding of grammar and punctuation by writing an essay containing all of the grammatical concepts outlined above. your essay should be short, just 250 words, and it can be written on any subject. it should contain an example of parallel structure, an example of every type of phrase and clause outlined in this lesson, an example of two independent clauses connected by a semicolon, and an example of a colon. if you are struggling to come up with an idea for an essay, consider writing it about the themes present in one of the texts you have read already.

What is the allure of fear? what have you learned from the story about portrayals of fear in literature?