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

benvolio: i pray thee, good mercutio, let’s retire:
the day is hot, the capulets abroad,
and, if we meet, we shall not ’scape a brawl;
for now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.

what motivates benvolio to utter this warning?

his fear of being injured
his desire to avoid a fight
his loyalty to the capulets
his concern for mercutio

the tone of the passage is sympathetic to the forbidden love of romeo and juliet. the nurse plays a significant role in the play. she is responsible for making their meeting again possible. additionally, there is a sense of warning in the choice of words of the nurse. she seems to be authoritative when she calls romeo "scurvy knave", and at the same time the fact that she addresses to him as "sir" reflects respect. the nurse is "vexed", this word describes her confused state of mind. on the one hand, she finds romeo a fine and eloquent man, but on the other, it is thought that man's nature forces men to try to trick women.  

while his customary satire is present in mark twain's short story "the notorious jumping frog of calaveras county," there is a cloaking of this satire as twain's narrator is not directly involved. another literary device that you could build a thesis around is the use by twain of hyperbole.

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