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Read The Lessons of Salem, by Laura Shapiro
What ironic situation does Shapiro describe in paragraph 3?
Answer: The irony of having those who “confessed” to witchcraft spared and those who defended their innocence being killed.
Explanation:
The Puritan witch hunts of 1692 would get confessions by torturing the suspects to justify the hunt itself, and those who would refuse to confess would end up being hung to death. The irony lies in the fact that none of the suspects had anything to do with witchcraft, and the proceedings of the trials were especially prejudicial to those who were honest.
Paired conjunctions
Either......or
Neither......nor
Not only.....but
Iwill go either to Rio or Bahia on my vacation
Neither John nor Mary speaks French
Not only does he speak French,but also German
Twilight is the metaphor for aginf tha Shakespeare uses. Option C is correct.
A metaphor is understood as a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true, but helps convey an idea or draw a comparison.
A metaphor states that one thing is another thing.
Metaphors are used in poetry, literature.
So, this literary decive is implemented in order to encourage the reader to make a comparison between two seemingly unrelated things.
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</span>In the first stanza, burn and rave at the
close of day suggests that they should fight it with vigor and intensity. The
words “burn” and “rave” suggest an
uncontrolled, irrational response to imminent death, the incoherent expenditure
of useless energy directed at a hopeless goal.
