Answer:
The technique used by Alexander Pope in The R*pe of the Lock is mock-epic genre.
Explanation:
"The Ra-pe of the Lock" is a mock-epic (a technique used by Pope) poem written by Alexander Pope. Pope has written the verse in heroic couplets.
Pope named his poem as "an heroi-comical poem".
Mock-epic is a form of satire in which trivial matters or subjects are dealt in an elevated heroic style. <u>This dealing of the trivial matters in a heroic style creates the humor in this technique of mock-epic</u>. This genre does not mock the epics but rather the subject by giving it a form of epic.
<u>The poem deals with a true incident of trivial matter; the stolen locks of a young woman. Because of this conflict between two families started, which Pope resembled that of the war of Greeks and Trojan. </u>
Answer:
4. are looking for multiple forms of one word.
Explanation:
A dictionary helps you find the meaning of the word, while a thesaurus helps you find similar words to that word or synonyms.
Some examples of simple, compound, complex and compound-complex sentences using the examples given are the following:
People get so excited about football. I don't understand it. It is not nearly as interesting as baseball. Here we have three simple sentences.
People get so excited about football and I don't understand why; it is not nearly as interesting as baseball. Compound sentence formed by three independent clauses. The firs two are linked by the coordinator "and", and the third one is separated by a semicolon.
I don't understand why people get so excited about football. It is not nearly as interesting as baseball. Complex sentence formed by a dependent clause embedded in an independent clause, introduced by the adverb of reason "why". Afterwards, We have an independent clause.
I don't understand why people get so excited about football, for it is not nearly as interesting as baseball. Compound-complex sentence formed by two clauses, one independent containing a dependent introduced by the adverb of reason "why", and the other one linked by the coordinator "for".
