Poem: street he fall in love with the butcher's daughter when he saw her passing by in her white trousers dangling a knifevon a ring at her belt. he stared at the dark shining drops on the paving-stones. one day he followed her down the slanting lane at the back of the shambles. a door stood half-open and the stairs were brushed and clean, her shoes paired on the bottom step, each tread marked with the red crescent her bare heels left, fading to faintest at the top questions on the above poem: 1.what do you think happens in the second stanza of the poem? support your view with reference to the text. 2.do you think the poem is more sympathetic to the man or to the woman? give reasons for your answer. 8-10 lines for each question on the poem above

Which three parts of these excerpts reflect the idea that war affects not only the minds of the combatants but also their physical reactions?

If a text made the claim that act iv was the most important act in the entire play, what evidence could you find to prove the accuracy of that claim? list one piece of evidence from the text to support that claim.

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.