Drag began out of necessity, although that’s not to say its participants didn’t enjoy it. When Shakespearean theatre was shiny and new in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the stage wasn’t just a place of entertainment. It had strong links to the church and with that came rules that only men could tread the boards. If that play you were in featured a few female roles, then it was up to a couple of the men in the cast to dress as members of the opposite sex so the story didn’t suffer.
Explanation:
The word ‘drag’ is believed to have theatrical origins too. The dresses men wore to play female characters would drag along the floor.
The authors claim in the passage is that sugar is different from honey. The authors primary purpose in the passage is that sugar is not as good as honey. The author uses interesting diction to get his point across about what he thinks of sugar and honey when in comparison.
This is more like an informal explanation of what the term <em>democracy</em> means. It mostly contains short and simple words, so it cannot be a formal definition or a dictionary definition. An extended definition is usually one or more paragraphs, so this text is too short to be an extended definition.
