How does the speaker's descent into madness affect the outcome of the poem "the raven"?
a. it ends with the raven flying away and glimmer of hope

b. it ends with the raven forever tormenting him as he is doomed to be sorrowful forever

c. it ends with the prospect of lenore returning to him

d. it ends with his madness leading to his death so that he can be with lenore

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination