Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" does not rely heavily on metaphors. It is rather a monologue delivered by the speaker describing a painting of his wife and his wife as a person when she was still living. The painting can be said to symbolize the wife, the last duchess. There are a few metaphors sprinkled throughout the poem, though, as the speaker paints a verbal portrait of his former wife.
When the speaker says in lines 1-2 "That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were alive," his choice of words could be considered metaphorical. The duchess herself is not literally on the wall; rather, this is a painting or a likeness of her, which stands in for her throughout the poem. One of the few metaphors in the poem is the "spot of joy" referenced by the speaker. The speaker suggests that most people wonder what exactly makes his lady smile and appear happy in the painting.
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can be used to correct most run-on sentences
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Run-on sentences refers to two or more independent clauses which have not been appropriately separated by a semicolon, a coordinating conjunction or a period. Therefore, a comma can be used with a coordinating conjunction like <em>and, but </em>or <em>so</em>, to join two or more independent clauses in a run-on sentence.
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B) Present evidence to support this reason and refute the counterclaim.
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1- The correct answer is B.
The narrator could not believe what Miguel had said, so he run off to the park to investigate. When he arrived, he realized Miguel was correct: there were no traces of the carnival there: no holes where the spikes had been, no hay scattered about.
2- The correct answer is D.
The narrator's father was astonished because he believed that Miguel and the reporter were wrong. He could not understand how it could be possible for there to be no carnival in the area when he and everyone in town had been to one the night before.
