Read the second stanza of the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; —vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
Nameless here for evermore.

Which line from the stanza best supports the idea that the speaker was reading at the beginning of the poem?

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,"

"As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."
"Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—"

"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,"

Select the correct text in the passage. which two lines in this excerpt from shakespeare's romeo and juliet foreshadow the tragic fate of romeo and juliet? friar laurence: so smile the heavens upon this holy act, that after hours with sorrow chide us not! romeo: amen, amen! but come what sorrow can, it cannot countervail the exchange of joy that one short minute gives me in her sight: do thou but close our hands with holy words, then love-devouring death do what he dare; it is enough i may but call her mine. friar laurence: these violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite: therefore love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Comparing and contrasting is a form of

How do "the jilting of granny weatherall" and "the love somg of j alfred prufrock" differ?