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

Which word is the comparative form? hyper best less most fruitful

Which of the following is an aspect of setting in a literary work? 1. time ii. place iii. social/historical context i only i and 11 ll and iii i, ii, and iii

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.