<u>Answer:</u>
The lines "State your argument concisely in the thesis statement." and "Connect ideas using transitional words and phrases" are the two instructions that are required to write a strong essay.
<u>Explanation:</u>
As a strong essay must have good, valid, clear and concise arguments to express your view on the topic.
And having a well connected essay with well connected ideas by using transitional words and phrases keeps the interest of the reader alive and doesn't confuse the reader about your purpose and expression on the topic of the essay.
Good question.. but you don’t really explain the question
Answer:
Claudius and Gertrude ask Rosencrantz and Guildenstern about Hamlet's madness.
Explanation:
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Hamlet's friends from Wittenberg. Hamlet was unable to recover from his father's death. So, both Claudius and Gertrude wanted to know if Hamlet's madness was real. They wanted to help Hamlet and make him cheerful. Claudius wanted is friends to investigate why has his son changed a lot.
The tone of the conversation is shameful. Hamlet asks Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, if they had been sent by the king and the queen or they have come on their own. Both feel guilty when Hamlet asks them. They are loyal towards king and the queen and not Hamlet.
Even king and queen have mixed feelings about Hamlet.
The author here is using the literaty device irony, since the outcome of decorating would be assumed to ave a great reaction, yet Melissa was dissapointed