Table games have been living in the shadow of video games. While many of today's teens spend time playing video games, old-fashioned
board games like Tycoon Town and Where's the Evidence? are growing
in popularity again. In addition, new table games are being published
and gaining plenty of fans. Why? The main reason teens are putting
down their video game controllers to play board games is simply to
connect with friends.

Which option best explains how the graphic enhances the overall meaning of
the text?

i believe it is he has been given the drum as a joke.

your answer is c) experiments with water vapor showed that elements combine in specific proportions.

1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.