In this passage from hamlet, act iv, scene vii, king claudius tells laertes why he is not taking action against polonius’s murderer. which lines convey the idea that the danish people love hamlet and that accusing him of murder would generate bad public opinion for claudius?
laertes: it well appears. but tell me
why you proceeded not against these feats,
so criminal and so capital in nature,
as by your safety, greatness, wisdom, all things else
you mainly were stirr'd up
king: o, for two special reasons,
which may to you, perhaps, seem much unsinow'd,389
but yet to me they are strong. the queen his mother
lives almost by his looks, and for myself—
my virtue or my plague, be it either which—
she is so conjunctive to my life and soul,
that, as the star moves not but in his sphere, i could not but by her.
the other motive,
why to a public count i might not go,
is the great love the general gender bear him;
who, dipping all his faults in their affection,
work, like the spring that turneth wood to stone,
so that my arrows,
too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind,
would have reverted to my bow again,
but not where i have aim'd them

"it’s so clear now. o light, let me look at you one final time …" in no more than 300 words, explain the symbolism of this speech by oedipus and how and why it reflects the story’s major themes.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. she was a small woman, short and straight-waisted like a child in her brown cotton gown. her forehead was mild and benevolent between the smooth curves of gray hair; there were meek downward lines about her nose and mouth; but her eyes, fixed upon the old man, looked as if the meekness had been the result of her own will, never of the will of another. in at least one hundred words, explain how this excerpt uses explicit and implicit details to describe sarah penn.

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification