This opening speech by the Chorus serves as an introduction to Romeo and Juliet. We are provided with information about where the play takes place, and given some background information about its principal characters.
The obvious function of the Prologue as introduction to the Verona of Romeo and Juliet can obscure its deeper, more important function. The Prologue does not merely set the scene of Romeo and Juliet, it tells the audience exactly what is going to happen in the play. The Prologue refers to an ill-fated couple with its use of the word “star-crossed,” which means, literally, against the stars. Stars were thought to control people’s destinies. But the Prologue itself creates this sense of fate by providing the audience with the knowledge that Romeo and Juliet will die even before the play has begun. The audience therefore watches the play with the expectation that it must fulfill the terms set in the Prologue. The structure of the play itself is the fate from which Romeo and Juliet cannot escape.
Boris Pasternak couldn’t get his book Doctor Zhivago published in the Soviet Union, so he had the book smuggled out of the country.
This is what the passage is mainly about, the publishing of Doctor Zhivago. Unlike the second option, it was focusing about the book.
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The device that is not used in the headings given from "Sweet Nothings" is that of a Simile.
<h3>What is a Simile?</h3>
A simile is a way of describing something by comparing it to another thing. This is done with the words, "as" or "like".
In the above headings, there are no similies used because and we see this with the absence of the words, "as" and "like".
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c. metaphorIn the above passage, the figurative language that exists is
in the form of the following words: “starless
midnight of racism and war.” We know the
figurative language is not a simile because similes will include the use of the
words “as” or “like,” and these words are not present. We know the figurative language is not
personification because personification gives human attributes to non-human
things, and this is not occurring here.
We also know the figurative language is not a hyperbole because a
hyperbole is a type of exaggeration, and there does not appear to be an
exaggeration here. Thus, we can conclude
that the figurative language is a metaphor because a metaphor makes comparisons
that are not literally applicable. That
said, because there are technically no stars or times of day in racism and war,
it can be deduced that the type of figurative language used is metaphor.
The cause-and-effect structure helps the reader understand how specific people's decisions affected the spread of the fire.
