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Date de naissance de Mme De La Fayette : Texte 6 : Mme De La Fayette, La princesse de Clèves, L'éducation de Mlle de Chartres
Autre ouvrage de Mme De La Fayette : Texte 6 : Mme De La Fayette, La princesse de Clèves, L'éducation de Mlle de Chartres
Dans les cahiers de douais, Rimbaud mélange et multiplie les formes poétique et les références à des figures forte de la littérature, mais garde une distance ironique, dans roman, il s'émancipe de la jeunesse en racontant une Première histoire d'amour.
Like the rest of the Canterbury tales, the famous opening lines in the general prologue ("what that April with his showres soote/The drought of March hath perced to the root") utilize which one of the literary devices below?
What does the knight in The Wife of Bath's Tale discover women want the most?
The Miller tells the pilgrims that "youth and age is often at debate." How does his tale illustrate this conviction?
In The Miller's Tale, which medieval vice underlies John the Carpenter's domestic difficulties?
What do we learn when Duncan asks, "Dismayed not this our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?," and the Captain answers. "As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion." (I, 1l 40-41)
What do we learn about Duncan when he says this about the executed Thane of Cawdor?: " there's no art/to find the mind construction in the face./He was a gentleman on whom I built/an absolute trust."
In ActIV, when Malcolm stad Macduff festunest, what is Mricote's goul.wnen he says to laneduff, "With this there grows to my mast ill-composed affection such/A staunchness avarice that, were I king. should cut off the nobles for their tands" (IV, Il, 51-94)?
In Act V Macbeth says. "What's the boy Malcolm? Was he not born of woman?" (V, iii, 3-4) because Macbeth.
In Act Ill, Lady Macbeth says to horsolf that "naught's had, all's spent./Where our dosire is got without content" (II, i, 6), yet to Macbeth's doubts rosponds, "You must leave this" (III, Il, 40). In the same sceno, Macbeth alludes to his plan to kill Banquo, but says to Lady Macbeth, "Be innocent of the deed, dearest chuck" (III, il, 51). What does this scene reveal about their relationship?
At the end of the Wife's tale, how does the knight's aged and unattractive bride persuade him to drop his objections to their marriage?
When at the end of Act I Macbeth says to himself, "False face must hide what the false face doth know," which sentiment of Lady Macbeth does he echo?
Given the events of act I, what can we infer when, an act II, i, Banquo ask Macbeth about the witches prediction, and Macbeth responds "I think not of them"? (27-2)
In The Pardoner's Tale, which medieval vice does the Pardoner both warn the pilgrims about, and exhibit?
Which literary device does this line from Beowulf employ?: "In the end each clan on the outlying coasts/beyond the whale-road had to yield to him/and begin to pay tribute." (9-11)
Which of the following aspects of Lanval would be of most interest to a reader viewing the text through the lens of New Criticism?
Which literary device does this line from Beowulf employ?: "He is hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain,/limping and looped in it." (975-976)
Geoffrey Chaucer's General Prologue is best described as a