Interpret a single scene in The Merchant of Venice in three ways: Describe the scene. Include--Who is in it, what is happening, and why it's significant.
Interpret what the scene means to the plot of the play in your own words. You might have to look up some words, even some that seem used a bit differently than you're used to.
Interpret what the scene means using one of the types of literary criticism you have learned about so far this quarter--New Historical/Cultural criticism or Feminist criticism.

Read the excerpt from “man listening to disc.” to tommy potter for taking the time to join us on this breezy afternoon with his most unwieldy bass and to the esteemed arthur taylor who is somehow managing to navigate this crowd with his cumbersome drums. and i bow deeply to thelonious monk for figuring out a way to motorize—or whatever—his huge piano so he could be with us today. which of the following additional features would best enhance the reader’s understanding of this excerpt? a diagram showing the narrator’s route through the city a visual simulation of the man walking down the street audio samples of music by the specified musicians textbook chapters on the history of jazz musicians

The point of view in the novel can best be described as third-person omniscient third-person limited second-person first-person

Lines 47–56: determine the central idea of these lines