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English, 25.03.2020 20:58, kholman

According to the following lines, what does Friar Lawrence's style of speech tell you about him?

Friar: The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,

Check’ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light;

And fleckèd darkness like a drunkard reels

From forth day’s path and Titan’s burning wheels.

Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye

The day to cheer and night’s dank dew to dry,

A. He uses so many complicated images in his speech to give people the impression that he is an educated and well-versed man.

B. Using rhymed verse would reflect the lively and jaunty character of friar Lawrence.

C. Using rhymed verse sets Friar Lawrence apart from the other characters since he is a religious figure and needs to be distinguished.

D. Shakespeare wants the audience to feel the discrepency between what religious figures appear to be like and how they are in reality through noticing the discrepency between Friar Lawerence's elegent style of speech and his mean intentions.

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