According to their own legend, reported by the mid-6th-century Gothic historian Jordanes, the Goths originated in southern Scandinavia<span> and crossed in three ships under their king Berig to the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, where they settled after defeating the Vandals and other Germanic peoples in that area.</span>
Power. "My Last Duchess<span>" is all about power: the political and social power wielded by the speaker (the Duke) and his attempt to control the domestic sphere (his marriage) in the same way that he rules hi...</span>
Because Juliet is a religious teen, Shakespeare uses the word "sin."
Diction is word choice.
Examples:
Blundered
Brandishing
Snivels