Sugar changed the world, part 1: author's purpose
instruction active
determining purpose
what is the author's purpose in this paragraph?
ever since i was a little girl, i had heard about our house
in guyana. it was beautiful: a long white box with a series
of windows, each shaded by delicate lattice shutters. like
all the houses in the area, where the land easily floods, it!
sat on slender stilts; underneath was what was called the
bottomhouse, where the chickens strutted about.
-sugar changed the world,
marc aronson and marina budhos
o to entertain readers with a detailed story about a
flood
o to inform readers about the lives of workers on
sugar plantations
o to inform readers with descriptive details about her
family's home
o to persuade readers that having stilts on homes is
the best way to avoid flood damage
1) intro
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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.