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Machiavelli forces readers to carefully consider the meanings of the words merciful and mercy.
In the passage from "The Prince," the author Niccolò Machiavelli mentions the words mercy and merciful intending to make readers contemplate their meanings with special circumspection. Thus, <em>mercy </em>is compassion towards somebody one can hurt or punish, and <em>merciful </em>means benevolent. In that respect, Machiavelli suggests that an unsympathetic ruler can preserve power rather than a compassionate one.
The underlined phrases are as follows:
1. Marriage.
2. Time's fool.
3. Bending sickle's compass.
4. Edge of doom.
Their meanings are as follows"
1. Marriage - Union.
2. Time's fool - Subject to the whim of change. Love is not a time's fool means that love is constant for all time, it is not subject to change.
3. Bending sickle's compass - In its range of impacts.
4. Edge of doom - Infinity. Edge of doom means time without end.
The girls, Joanna and Mary Jane, have treated Huck very nicely, which is the reason why he decides to steal the gold back from the Duke and the King and give it back to them. He didn't want to swindle those kind girls any longer, which is why he wanted to help them rather than conceal those two criminals.
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i sadly dont know what words are in the passage, so if this dosent help just comment the passege but here goes nothing ig...
Explanation:
look for descriptive words that describe whats around the setting such as smells colors or objects
