Read capulet’s speech from act iv, scene 2, as he plans for the wedding: tush, i will stir about, and all things shall be well, i warrant thee, wife: go thou to juliet, to deck up her; i’ll not to bed to-night; --let me alone; i’ll play the housewife for this once. --what, h-o! -- they are all forth: well, i will walk myself to county paris, to prepare him up against to-morrow: my heart is wondrous light since this same wayward girl is so reclaim’d. how does this example of dramatic irony create tension? a. readers know that juliet will obey her father's wishes. b. readers know that juliet has no plans to marry paris. c. readers know that capulet looks forward to his daughter's marriage to paris. d. readers know that capulet plans to continue the montague feud.

What ideal of imagist poetry is best reflected in this poem by ezra pound in which he compares a crowded metro station to a flowering tree branch? in a station of the metro the apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet, black bough. a. poetry should be about urban subjects and ideas. b. old poetry should be rewritten in a modern style. c. poets should be able to describe ordinary subjects in new ways. d. poets should write about new subjects with conventional techniques.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

When doing a close reading, what is involved in the process of annotating a text?