1. RL 6 (Direct Meaning/Inferences): What does the speaker really mean in lines 1-2? *

The speaker is comparing falling stars to mandrake roots.

The speaker utilizes hyperbole to encourage the reader to do impossible things like

catching a falling star or becoming pregnant by a mandrake root.

The speaker is challenging the reader to find people who have the ability to catch

falling stars and find children in mandrake roots.

The speaker is satirizing the fields of astronomy and botany.

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2. RL 2 (Theme Analysis): One way the author presents the universal theme

is by

Incomplete question. Lines 1-2 of Go And Catch A Falling Star

by John Donne read;

"Go and catch a falling star,

   Get with child a mandrake root,

Tell me"

Question 2 options:

A) including, in the last stanza, imagery of nature and its power.

B) introducing, in the first stanza, the conflict of the protagonist.

C) expressing, in the last stanza, the dissonance felt by the protagonist.

D) introducing, in the first stanza, the imagery prevalent throughout the poem.

1. The speaker is comparing falling stars to mandrake roots.

2. D) introducing, in the first stanza, the imagery prevalent throughout the poem.

Explanation:

1. The speaker knowing fully well about the myths attached to "mandrake root" isn't convinced it aids women in having children, and so he compares it to something impossible, which is catching a fallen star.

2. Based on the assumption that we are referring to the same poem, it could be observed in the first stanza that the imagery prevalent throughout the poem is introduced right from the first stanza by the comparison of two things (mandrakes and falling stars).

everyman: morality play

which phrase in this excerpt from the play everyman refers to god's judgment of people's souls after their death?

messenger: . .

ye think sin in the beginning full sweet,

which in( the end) causeth thy soul to weep,

when the body lieth in clay.

here shall you see how fellowship and jollity,

both strength, pleasure, and beauty,

will fade from thee as flower in may.

for ye shall hear, how our heavenly king

calleth everyman to a (general reckoning):

give audience, and hear what he doth say.

god: i perceive here in my majesty,

how that all the creatures be to me unkind,

living without dread in worldly prosperity:

of (ghostly sight) the people be so blind,

drowned in sin, they know me not for their god;

in worldly riches is all their mind,

they fear not( my righteousness), the sharp rod;

(my law that i shewed), when i for them die

hopefully this !