Discussion Topic 15 Re:
"The Romantic Era" is the first unit in this course that has featured literature in prose form
(novels). Today, fiction is the most popular form of literature, and romantic poetry
especially is said to appeal to a broader audience than the poetry of earlier eras. As a
reader, do you feel this is true? How accessible do you find the literature of the romantic
era? Which texts were more accessible than others? What about these texts made them
easier to comprehend and/or enjoy?

Read the excerpt from heart of a samurai. the water was so clear, he could see straight to the bottom. a snail was making a path like a shiny ribbon slowly unfurling on the sand. what does the author use the most precise words to describe in the excerpt? the water’s movement the water the snail the snail’s path

In the chaste adventures of joseph: a comedy, the garden outside the potiphar’s home symbolizes growth and natural beauty, and it highlights the

Read the excerpt from "a modest proposal." the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown. which statement effectively uses a quotation to show that swift claims that the poor will also benefit from his proposal? “swift writes that poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress.” swift writes that poorer tenants will finally have something to pay their landlord’s rent since they have neither money nor trade. swift writes that poorer tenants will have something to trade for rent since “their corn and cattle” have already been seized. swift writes that “poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own” that can “ to pay their landlord’s rent.”