Penelope, the weaver, is a literary reference to fidelity.
While Odysseus is absent, Penelope is pretended by several men, who settle in the palace and nastily eat her banquets, while waiting for the queen to choose one of them. To maintain her fidelity, Penelope tells the suitors that she will accept a new husband when she finishes weaving a shroud for King Laertes, on whom she was working. To prolong this task as long as possible, Penelope undoes at night what she weaves during the day, however, a woman betrays her an tell the other men, so she is forced to finish the job. Odysseus returns just in time, killing the suitors .
- They have abab,cdcd,efef and gg rhyme schemes.
His sonnets are made up of three quatrains and a final couplet.A quatrain is a four line stanza and a couplet is a two lines at the end.
Answer:
Two words using the root -gest- are gesture and digestion. The original meaning of the root as inherited from Lating was "carry" or "perform". In modern English, however, the word has a separate meaning of "a tale of adventures" or "a romance in verse" (according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary).
Explanation:
Here is a sentence with the word "gesture".
<u>Peter's gift was a very kind gesture.</u>
As for the connection of the word "gesture" with its root: the gift actually "carries" kindness or "performs" an act of kindness.
Answer:
B
Explanation:
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