Select ALL the correct answers. Keeping in mind the author's humorous purpose, which two sentences best reflect ideas central to the meaning of the passage?
Because modern society is gradually evolving toward more habitual truth-telling and less lying, people are experiencing less shame and embarrassment.
Since lying is an integral part of human nature, it should at least be done in a clever and crafty way rather than in a careless manner.
Lying is a childish and foolish practice, which mature people should work hard to replace with the regular practice of telling the truth at all times.
The lawyers in the audience are in particular need of developing the craft of artful lying because of what their profession entails.
The idea that one can and should tell the truth all the time is not only a misguided notion, but an annoying one as well.

What is frederick douglass’ misconception regarding the

What other seminal u.s documents does king cite in his speech?

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the shift in the poem’s rhythm in the last stanza signifies a resolution to the conflict that the poem is a sonnet the speaker’s confusion an irregular rhyme scheme