Or, if i live, is it not very like,
the horrible conceit of death and night,
together with the terror of the place,
as in a vault, an ancient receptacle,
where, for these many hundred years, the bones
of all my buried ancestors are pack’d;
in this excerpt, the motif of night emphasizes juliet’s fear that
romeo will join her in death.
she will be haunted by ghosts.
romeo will never find her.
she will never wake up.

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination