Answer: He is very quick-witted and loves to play on words. He is a source of entertainment in the play with his clever use of language. He is also important as he serves as a foil to Romeo, that is to say he helps to highlight Romeo's character through the contrast to his own.
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The sentence of this excerpt that gives a sense of Stephen's reluctance to take part in sports is:
<em>He kept on the fringe of his line, out of sight of his prefect, out of the reach of the rude feet, feigning to run now and then. </em>
This sentence conveys the idea that, although the character is on the brink of getting involved, he does not actually take part. Rather than that, he tries to remain invisible for the ones that are, in fact, involved.
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Thurber conveyed humor in this story by making weird interpretations of the characters in the story. The next morning when Thurber met the American woman, he said, "The reason Duncan resembled Lady Macbeth's father as he slept is that it actually was her father!” “Good God!" breathed my companion softly. In this statement, Thurber attributed the death of the King to Lady Macbeth's father who appeared once in the story and this surprised the American woman.
Explanation:
Thurber used humor in this story, a skill employed by writers to make the story fun and evoke laughter by giving unusual interpretation of events in the story. When the American woman was suspecting Macduff as the person who killed the King, Thurber came with an entirely different interpretation the next morning stating that it was Lady Macbeth's father who made just one appearance in the story that killed the King.
When the woman asked him who he suspected since he was going to buy Hamlet, he said "Everybody". These were funny and weird behaviors of Thurber.
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If the writer has something valuable to say about life or how to live it, conflict is a great tool to show these competing viewpoints. Conflict introduces opposing belief systems, wants, or goals not just to entertain the viewer, but to show the character another worldview.
Explanation:
The phrase which is an adjective phrase in this sentence is about slavery.
Adjective phrases act as simple adjectives - they describe the noun they are referring to. So, what kind of a serial novel? About slavery. This phrase modifies the noun novel further.
In 1850 is an adverbial phrase, when Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law is not a phrase at all but a dependent clause, and started a serial novel is a fragment, not a phrase.
