I would say that the principle means of characterization employed by the author is dialogue. Since Romeo and Juliet is a play, everything we know actually comes from the conversations, be it a dialogue, or a monologue.
This passage comes from “<u><em>The Rainy Day</em></u>” written by <em>H.W. Longfellow</em> and it points out that in life everyone will experience sorrow or heartache, but there is always hope for something better so we must stop complaining.
Question: Identify the meter. Then identify the effect of that meter.
Answer: A. unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed. It gives the poem a reflective mood.
Answer:
"A Visit From St. Nicholas".
Explanation:
"The Night Before Christmas" was a poem anonymously published in 1823 and later claimed by Clement Clarke Moore in 1837. This Christmas poem is ascribed to be largely responsible for the Santa Clause conceptions and the belief of this 'imaginary' person. The poem was originally known as "A Visit From St. Nicholas".
The poem consisting of 56 lines in one long stanza has a rhyming scheme of a normal aabbccdd......... . The meter of the poem follows the anapestic tetrameter, where the lines consist of two unstressed followed by a stressed syllable.
The poem talks of a night before Christmas when a father of one family saw St. Nicholas descend through the chimney and fill the decorative stockings with gifts for the whole family. Wishing the family with <em>"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”</em>, he left the amused father. This began the concept of a Christmas Santa Claus visiting before the day of Christmas and giving gifts to the children.
The prepositional phrase is “from Minnesota”
There are three quatrains in his sonnet. So, B.
