Read the excerpt from Act IV, scene i of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Laurence: On Thursday, sir? the time is very short.

Paris: My father Capulet will have it so;

And I am nothing slow to slack his haste.

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Friar Laurence: You say you do not know the lady’s mind:

Uneven is the course, I like it not.

Paris: Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt’s death,

And therefore have I little talk’d of love;

For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.

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Why does Paris’s request create dramatic irony in this scene?

A. because Paris has not expressed his love to Juliet

B. because Friar Laurence has already married Juliet to Romeo

C. because Capulet has already welcomed Romeo into the family

D. because Juliet is still mourning the death of her cousin Tybalt

The answer is B by the way.

No man thinks more highly than i do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the house. what appeal does he primarily use here?

Place the steps of the strategy for reading technical information in the correct order.

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator