Paris: happily met, my lady and my wife!

juliet: that may be, sir, when i may be a wife.

paris: that may be must be, love, on thursday next.

juliet: what must be shall be.

friar laurence: that's a certain text.

paris: come you to make confession to this father?

juliet: to answer that, i should confess to you.

paris: do not deny to him that you love me.

juliet: i will confess to you that i love him.

paris: so will ye, i am sure, that you love me.

juliet: if i do so, it will be of more price,
being spoke behind your back, than to your face.

paris: poor soul, thy face is much abused with tears.

juliet: the tears have got small victory by that;
for it was bad enough before their spite.

paris: thou wrong'st it, more than tears, with that report.

juliet: that is no slander, sir, which is a truth;
and what i spake, i spake it to my face.

paris: thy face is mine, and thou hast slander'd it.

juliet: it may be so, for it is not mine own.
are you at leisure, holy father, now;
or shall i come to you at evening mass?

friar laurence: my leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now.
my lord, we must entreat the time alone

in this passage from act iv of romeo and juliet, juliet goes to friar laurence for advice because her father is forcing her to marry count paris. when she gets to the friar’s room, paris is there, arranging for the wedding. which literary technique is used in this exchange between paris and juliet?

a. dramatic irony
b. foreshadowing
c. imagery
d. flashback

the answer is, a) she is angry with elnora for not standing up for herself.

a) walter looks unhealthy

explanation:

the intellectual community is a place like a university where people with high marks, or original thought or an outstanding interest in something gather. they take classes together. they discuss things. they argue sometimes, and not always in a friendly way. but if they argue, it is because they are passionate about something, and there is nothing the matter with that.

lately i've been hearing rumors that it is not the way it was when i went to school. the one thing all schools used to have was free speech. the 1st amendment rights were sacred. now i'm hearing they are not. students can be reported and disciplined for giving an off the wall opinion.

that is shameful.

intellectual ideas are meant to be discussed. they are meant to be chewed up and worked on. that is the primary responsibility of every intellectual community. if that is not the way it is, then that is not a school to go to.

social media, in my opinion, and this is just an opinion. i wouldn't take it too seriously, complicates everything to do with human communication. you can want to share things and others feel they have the right to be very critical or sarcastic or mean about what you share. lack of respect is an immeasurable intolerable condition and social media abounds with that sort of thing.

one of the things i really like about is how careful people are because they must have some idea that the mods are exactly what the word says they are. they police this board very well, and what is so remarkable about them is that they are no older than the average grade 12 student.

my hat goes off to them (which means i respect them quite a bit).