Irony is a between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
Read the excerpts from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe" and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet."Pyramus and Thisbe”She recognizedher own shawl and his dagger's ivory sheath.She cried: "Dear boy, you died by your own hand:your love has killed you. But I, too, commandthe force to face at least this task: I canclaim love, and it will give me strength enoughto strike myself.I'll follow you in death;and men will say that I—unfortunate—was both the cause and comrade of your fate.Nothing but death could sever you from me;but now death has no power to prevent my joining you. I call upon his parentsand mine; I plead for him and me—do notdeny to us—united by true love,who share this fatal moment—one same tomb.And may you, mulberry, whose boughs now shadeone wretched body and will soon shade two,forever bear these darkly colored fruitsas signs of our sad end, that men rememberthe death we met together.”Romeo and JulietGregory: Say better; here comes one of my master's kinsmen.Sampson: Yes, better, sir.Abraham: You lie.Sampson: Draw, if you be men.--Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.[They fight.][Enter BENVOLIO.]Benvolio: Part, fools! put up your swords; you know not what you do.[Beats down their swords.]
Read this sentence about Della from "The Gift of the Magi."Once she faltered for a minute and stood still while a tear or two splashed on the worn red carpet.
In "The Gift of the Magi," O. Henry most likely uses the irony of the couple’s gifts to express the theme that
Pyramus is dyingPyramus no longer loves hershe is lost in the woodsshe is in grave danger
Ms. Jameson is using "Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare to teach her students how to analyze a rhyme scheme.So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Read the excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi."Where she stopped the sign read: "Mme. Sofronie. Hair Goods of All Kinds." One flight up Della ran, and collected herself, panting. Madame, large, too white, chilly, hardly looked the "Sofronie.""Will you buy my hair?" asked Della."I buy hair," said Madame. "Take yer hat off and let’s have a sight at the looks of it."Down rippled the brown cascade."Twenty dollars," said Madame, lifting the mass with a practised hand.
At the end of "The Gift of the Magi," Jim says that he and Della should forget their gifts for a while and eat supper. This suggests the theme
Read the line from “Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare.But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
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Read the story.Anna asked her mother if she could drive the car to the store herself.Anna’s mom said, "Sure, ten-year-olds drive themselves to the store all the time!”
Read the excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi.""Isn't it a dandy, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it. You'll have to look at the time a hundred times a day now. Give me your watch. I want to see how it looks on it."Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch and put his hands under the back of his head and smiled."Dell," said he, "let's put our Christmas presents away and keep 'em a while. They're too nice to use just at present. I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs. And now suppose you put the chops on."
What inferences about Della can be made based on this excerpt? Select three options.
Read this characterization of Della from "The Gift of the Magi."Then she heard his step on the stair away down on the first flight, and she turned white for just a moment.
Analyze the rhyme scheme in these lines from “Sonnet 18.”But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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Which is one characteristic of iambic pentameter, which is used in "Sonnet 29”?
Shakespeare’s sonnets, including "Sonnet 29,” have which characteristic?
Read the excerpt from "Sonnet 29.”When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Which statement about iambic pentameter, which is used in "Sonnet 29,” is correct?
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