After analyzing the context, what is the next step the reader should take to determine the meaning of an unknown word?
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To determine the precise meaning of a word, what should the reader consider? Choose three answers.
Read the passage from Hamlet, Act I, Scene iii.Laertes: Be wary then; best safety lies in fear: Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.
What is nuance?
Read the analysis of Hamlet, Act I, Scene v.Shakespeare creates an anguished tone by repeating certain words in both Hamlet’s and the Ghost’s dialogue.
Read the passage from Hamlet, Act I, Scene v.Hamlet: And now, good friends, As you are friends, scholars, and soldiers, Give me one poor request. Horatio: What is ’t, my lord? we will.Hamlet: Never make known what you have seen to-night.
Read the passage from Hamlet, Act I, Scene v.Hamlet: Why, right; you are i’ the right;
Read the passage from Hamlet, Act I, Scene iii.Polonius: Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are most select and generous, chief in that.
Read the passage from Hamlet, Act I, Scene v.Ophelia: And, with his other hand thus o’er his brow, He falls to such perusal of my face As he would draw it. Long stay’d he so; At last, a little shaking of mine arm, And thrice his head thus waving up and down, He rais’d a sigh so piteous and profound That it did seem to shatter all his bulk And end his being.
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