When reading shakespeare, what is not an important reason for utilizing strategies such as paraphrasing and summarizing?
a. to better understand shakespearean verse
b. to avoid missing important information embedded in the figurative language
c. to improve the speed at which the play is read
d. to ensure understanding of the major themes in the work

Read the excerpt from eighty years and more: reminiscences, 1815-1897. all that day and far into the night i pondered the problem of boyhood. i thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. so i decided to study greek and learn to manage a horse. which question would best the reader understand stanton's viewpoint in this excerpt?