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compare and contrast gloucester and lear, focusing on their choices, their adherence to kingly or noble ideals, their relationships with their children, their level of wisdom and humility ( at the beginning and at the end of the story), and/or other parallels you find interesting. be sure to integrate quotes from the text to support your comparison.

king lear

Read the extract below and identify the three kind(s) of bias that are apparent within it. despite being reintroduced in the 1600s by idle, muddle-headed aristocrats in order to be slaughtered for fun, all the wild boars that were brought to australia from the continent eventually died out. for the next 300 years there were no boars in australia, but in the 1980s farmers saw a chance to diversify and began to import and farm them. some of these beautiful, intelligent animals escaped and established herds of their own, once again living wild and purely natural lives. while their ideal home is in woodland, boars are hardy and are able to live in multiple habitats. a/ mistreatment of opposing views b/ positive stereotyping c/ subjective vocabulary d/ personal attacks e/statistics f/ corporate bias e/ negative stereotyping g/ offensive language

Which literary device has emily dickinson used in these lines? how dreary to be somebody! how public, like a frog to tell your name the livelong day to an admiring bog! metaphor alliteration simile allusion

Analyze lowell’s use of symbolism in the poem “for the union dead.” explain how lowell’s use of symbolism to develop one or more themes in the text.