Think of examples you have encountered where an artist borrows something from another artist. Why do you think Shakespeare might have done this? Do you think this makes the
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new work more or less important?
What are some of the most important reasons why Shakespeare plays are still read and
performed today?

Which line in this excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock" by t.s. eliot uses synecdoche? shall i say, i have gone at dusk through narrow streets and watched the smoke that rises from the pipes of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? i should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas.