Answer: A. The Navajo live in the dry Arizona deserts.
Explanation:
The “Twelfth Song of Thunder” is a Navajo poem that celebrates the earth and its creatures. It was sung during a traditional Navajo Mountain Chant ceremony.
The Navajo people are a Native American tribe that lives in the Arizona deserts. In such an environment, there is not enough water, which causes the drought. The Navajo are thus aware of the importance of water. In this poem, they celebrate the thunder and the storms, as rainy weather will break the drought.
Answer:
1a) They are plays.
2b) Shakespeare wrote using verse. Many of his characters speak in it.
3c) Shakespeare often writes long and complex sentences.
4d) Shakespeare uses a lot of poetic and rhetorical devices.
Explanation:
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1a) They are instructions to actors as to what to say in the performance of the play. They are best understood when they are watched, not when they are read.
2b) What this means is that there is a rhythm to their speech and sometimes Shakespeare bends the syntax to fit the rhythm. So, instead of having Richard III say "buried in the deep bosom of the ocean" he has him say "in the deep bosom of the ocean buried," moving the verb to the end of the sentence.
3c) Many people nowadays expect sentences to be short and simple.
4d) They are what make his words sing. But song lyrics and narrative prose these days hardly use these devices.
