Romeo and Juliet Balcony Scene Dialogue
ROMEO
What light through yonder window breaks?
Who, outside of the gloved hand, dares to caress his face?
JULIET
(talking to herself about Romeo)
Alas!
O Romeo, Romeo!
Why are you Romeo?
Deny your father and refuse your name.
And if you will, swear that you love me, and I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
ROMEO
Shall I continue listening, or shall I speak?
JULIET
Only your name is my enemy.
You are yourself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague?
It is not a hand, nor a foot, nor an arm, nor a face, nor any
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Linguistic Foundations: Signs, Sounds, and Meaning
In linguistics, we explore the fundamental building blocks of language:
Signs and Phonemes
- Signs: A sign represents an idea or a thing.
- Phoneme: A phoneme is a basic unit of sound in a language, a set of distinct sounds that a speaker interprets as a single unit.
Linguistic Structures
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- Deductive
- Inductive
- Chronological
- Causal
- Problem-solving
- Enumerative
Monemes and Morphemes
- Monemes: The smallest units of meaning
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The Social World of La Celestina
In La Celestina, the transformation of medieval society is palpable. This can be seen:
- On the one hand, in the establishment of new relationships between different social strata. The nobility has been displaced by the gentry; it is no longer lineage, inherited from our ancestors, but wealth that determines social status. In addition, the old feelings of respect and mutual fidelity between masters and servants has been replaced by purely economic relationships.
- On the
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Troubadour Poetry: Origins, Themes, and Legacy
Troubadour poetry was the first great literary expression in a Romance language. While Latin remained the consistent language of culture throughout the Middle Ages, Romance languages, like Catalan, began to develop their own distinct literary roles, particularly in prose. Literary history distinguishes between poets who wrote in Latin and the troubadours, who wrote in Occitan and also composed the music for their poems. This poetic tradition began with
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Literary Devices Identification
- 1. Hyperbole
- 2. Second Person
- 3. Flashback
- 4. Ambiguity
- 5. Alliteration
The Crucible
Setting
- Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
Themes
- Religion
- Jealousy
- Justice
- The Supernatural
- Good vs. Evil
Characters
- Abigail Williams: Parris’s niece; she initiated the witch trials by falsely accusing others of witchcraft and saved herself by lying throughout the story.
- John Proctor: A Salem farmer and former lover of Abigail Williams; he is intelligent and independent.
Summary
A group of teenage girls from
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Nineteenth-Century Literary Trends
After the Romantic movement, literature divided into two main currents: one aimed to accurately portray society, while the other resisted adherence to reality due to perceived artistic limitations.
The Realistic Movement
The Realistic movement began with authors like Stendhal, Balzac, and Flaubert. This realism later evolved into Russian spiritualist realism and Zola’s Naturalism. Writers were seen as doctors treating a sick society, experimenting with unpleasant
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