Read the excerpt from hamlet, act i, scene ii. [hamlet: ] must i remember? why, she would hang on him, as if increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on; and yet, within a month, let me not think on ’t: frailty, thy name is woman! a little month; or ere those shoes were old with which she follow’d my poor father’s body, like niobe, all tears; why she, even she,— o god! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, would have mourn’d longer,—married with mine uncle, my father’s brother, but no more like my father than i to hercules . . in this excerpt, hamlet characterizes his mother as (a)eager. (b)fickle. (c)loyal. (d)sickly.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

The empire state building was a.constructed by one hundred workers. b.was first lit up by president roosevelt. c.has more than one hundred stories. d took several years to complete.

Of the three selections you read in this lesson, discuss the one story or poem that you think most closely represents the transcendentalist way of thinking. include textual evidence from both short story or poem and emerson or thoreau's essay that you use as an example. you should have no less than eight to ten sentences.