Analysis Questions for “The Museum,” “Beneath the Lyrics of Leon Bridges,” and “ Commencement Address at The New School.” Listed below are questions that should guide you in preparing to write your analytic response over “The Museum,” “Beneath the Lyrics of Leon Bridges” and “Commencement Address at The New School.”

Question
Your answer
1. What was the genre of each text?

2. Were the genres, purposes, or intended audiences the same or different? What evidence from the texts support this conclusion?

3. How are the messages of each text similar/different?

4. Describe how the authors(Addouleia, McDaniel, and Smith) developed their messages similarly/differently?Provide text evidence from each text.

5. Describe the similarities and differences in style and tone between the texts.

6. Did each author communicate their message effectively? Why? Why not?

7. Consider how the intended audience may
have responded to each text.

8. How have your ideas and knowledge about this topic changed as a result of your analysis?

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.