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Read this excerpt from Hamlet discussed in "Behind the Curtain." Shakespeare, in particular, had an extraordinary gift for conjuring entire worlds through dialogue alone. Take the opening scene of Hamlet, for example. Two guards—strangers in the dark—exchange terse, cautious words: Barnardo: Who's there? Francisco: Nay, answer me. Stand, and unfold yourself. Barnardo: Long live the King! Francisco: Barnardo? Barnardo: He. From this brief exchange, we learn a great deal about the atmosphere: it's nighttime because the characters are having trouble seeing each other; the air is cold because at least one of the men is wearing a cloak. How can the Early Modern English expression "unfold yourself” be paraphrased to better understand its meaning?

What does Martin Luther King Jr. make allusions to in his "I Have a Dream” speech? Choose three correct answers.

Read the excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream” speech. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. The emotional connotation of the underlined word helps King emphasize the document’s

Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet . Montague : Many a morning hath he there been seen, With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew, Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs: But all so soon as the all-cheering sun Should in the furthest east begin to draw 120 The shady curtains from Aurora’s bed, Away from light steals home my heavy son, And private in his chamber pens himself, Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, And makes himself an artificial night. 125 Black and portentous must this humour prove Unless good counsel may the cause remove. In this excerpt, Romeo’s reaction to light illustrates his

Read the excerpt from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe". And when he had found the bloodstained shawl, he cried: "Now this same night will see two lovers lose their lives: she was the one more worthy of long life: it's I who bear the guilt for this. O my poor girl, it's I who led you to your death; I said you were to reach this fearful place by night; I let you be the first who would arrive. O all you lions with your lairs beneath this cliff, come now, and with your fierce jaws feast upon my wretched guts! Which statement best describes how the pace of the excerpt creates tension?

Read the excerpt from the letter to the editor. How are mixed-use areas different from what we have now? Let me tell you. Our city currently has a dense downtown area and then a massive amount of sprawl reaching out in every direction—the sprawl takes up seventy-five percent of the city’s land. Urban sprawl, the spreading of large developments of housing and shopping areas around a city’s center, has many negative cultural and environmental effects. How does the structure of this excerpt support the overall idea of the letter?

Which sentence from the speech includes an appeal to logos?

Read the excerpt from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms” speech. That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. What effect does Roosevelt most likely hope to have on the listener with this appeal to reason?

Using MLA guidelines, what information should be listed first in the citation for this source?