Step 1. Choose five (5) articles or short stories. Choose at least two different genres. In other words, do not choose only short articles or only short stories.

Choose selections that illustrate a different author's purpose. Do not choose only 'inform' or 'entertain' for all of your choices.

Step 2. Provide this information for each selection:

the web site of the selection

author

title

genre

summary of the selection (a paragraph of 7-10 sentences)

the author's purpose with justification for your reasons

Based solely on their titles, which contemporary novel most likely contains a mythological element that is also found in “cruel tribute? ”

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.

Which lines from ovid’s "pyramus and thisbe" establish setting?