Read the excerpt from act ii, scene iii of romeo and juliet.

benvolio: here comes romeo, here comes romeo.

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mercutio: without his roe, like a dried herring. o flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified! now is he for the numbers that petrarch flowed in: laura to his lady was but a kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to be-rime her; dido a dowdy; cleopatra a gipsy; helen and hero hildings and harlots; thisbe, a grey eye or so, but not to the purpose. signior romeo, bon jour! there’s a french salutation to your french slop. you gave us the counterfeit fairly last night.

romeo: good morrow to you both. what counterfeit did i give you?

mercutio: the slip, sir, the slip; can you not conceive?

how does mercutio offer comic relief in this excerpt?

a by explaining romantic figures from history
b by speaking in different languages
c by refusing to treat romeo’s romance seriously
d by complaining about his own love interest

c by refusing to treat Romeo’s romance seriously

In this excerpt from Mercutio, Mercutio is making all kinds of references to Romeo's romance. However, he is teasing Romeo saying that the night before Romeo went off to get with the girl he is pining over. All of these different references to flesh and women who are quick to climb in bed or trick men refer to Romeo's efforts to get with a girl the night before.

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human