<span>in an insincere or affected way.</span>
"Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light, Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write. While freedom's cause her anxious breast alarms, She flashes dreadful in refulgent arms. See mother earth her offspring's fate bemoan, And nations gaze at scenes before unknown! See the bright beams of heaven's revolving light Involved in sorrows and the veil of night!"
I am assuming that the above quotation is the excerpt of the poem that we need to read before answering the question above question.
The iambic pentameter in the poem creates an even RHYTHM and complements the poem as a SORROWFUL ELEGY.
I think that we read fairytales because they are entertaining. Some are also very easy to read as kids. Some times as children adults tell us them for that we learn a lesson. Like the boy who cried wolf shows what can happen if we lie to much. Lastly, I think that it’s because when we grow up we can tell it to others also. :)
The plot of The Dinner Party by Mona Gardner is there is a cobra in the dinner room, which no one is aware of. So, the American must find a way to keep all of the guests calm and still so that the cobra does not harm/bite any of them, while also trying to lead the cobra away into a bowl of milk outside on the veranda.