Which of the following lines contain an example of verbal irony? clear as mud, you make me think of us the lady doth protest too much, methinks the quality of mercy is not strained the proper study of mankind is man

What literary technique is evident in these words from beowulf?

Thousands of us and canadians citizens cross the border every day to shop, work, travel, and visit. this sentence is simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.

Marianne moore’s “poetry” is written in defense of poetry. in the excerpts, which three lines or phrases reflect moore’s opinion of what good poetry should be? . . to discriminate against "business documents and school-books"; all these phenomena are important. one must make a distinction however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination" —above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it. in the meantime, if you demand on the one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry.