Abraham Lincoln famously said, " Nearly all men can stand adversity [ difficulties], but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." What does this mean?

What detail is he implying with the phrase "where the railway station had been"? There never was a railway station. War has changed the area. This is a predictable place to gather. A train station is like a circus or a village.

Read the excerpt from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. PUCK How now, spirit! whither wander you?

There are three types of muscles in our bodies: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac.

Which of the following excerpts from the poem "To One in Paradise" invokes Gothic elements of the supernatural world or afterlife? A. "For love to titled age and crime,/And an unholy pillow!" B. "For which my soul did pine-" C.

Choose the item that identifies the complete subject in the following sentence. Walter Mitty and the people around him travel in two different worlds. a. Walter Mitty and the people c. Walter Mitty and the people around him b.

A sample diary entry and informal letter

Read act IV of Twelfth Night. Then arrange the following events in order from earliest to latest. 1. Sebastian thinks that he is suffering from memory loss or has gone mad. 2. Feste, disguised as Sir Topas, ridicules Malvolio in the dark cell. 3.

Youd better button up your lip. figure of speech

Which type of figurative language appeals to the readers' senses?

How did mr. utterson know that dr. jekyll was lying about the letter?