How can disruptive language be avoided?

Which statement best explains why shakespeare has cassius use the word fawn rather than a synonym such as flatter to describe his actions?

Write me a sonnet about basketball

Read the passage. and thus they fought all the long day, and never stinted till the noble knights were laid to the cold earth. and ever they fought still till it was near night, and by then was there a hundred thousand laid dead upon the down. in the passage from morte d’arthur by sir thomas malory, what are the bolded words an example of?