<em>In medias res </em>means in the middle of the action.
<em>In medias res</em> is a literary term that<u> is used to refer to a text that starts in the middle of the plot instead of starting with the beginning of the story</u>. When writers employ <em>in medias res</em>, they usually present the events that happened before by means of flashbacks or dialogue. Famous literary works such as Homer's <em>Iliad</em> and<em> Odyssey </em>and Shakespeare's <em>Hamlet </em>begin in medias res; in other words, <u>they go straight to the heart of the plot</u>.
The banker had negative feelings towards the jurist. In the story, the jurist did him some not so good things. We would expect that the wager was done out of hatred for the jurist. The banker wanted to take revenge aginst the jurist.
Answer:
We have friends like Brutus, they are called two faced. He's a patriot because he he killed Caesar for the good of Rome and then when he lost and felt like he did all that he could do for Rome, he killed himself (he died for Rome).
Explanation:
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The following sentences are correct:
- <em>The Grand Canyon came into view as I was hiking along the trail.</em>
- <em>Walking toward the car, I could see that I had a flat tire.</em>
A misplaced modifier is a word, phrase or clause that is improperly separated from the word it modifies or describes. In the two sentences provided, the modifiers are correctly put next to the words they are modifying, making the sentences to have sense and not to sound confusing.