Read the excerpt from lady capulet’s speech from act i, scene iii of romeo and juliet.

what say you? can you love the gentleman?
this night you shall behold him at our feast;
read o’er the volume of young paris’ face
and find delight writ there with beauty’s pen;

now read the adaptation of the speech.

well, do you think you’ll like this guy, paris? when you check him out at dinner, see if you think he’s handsome.

the intended audience for the adaptation is most likely a

business associate.
close friend.
college professor.
total stranger.

The tone of the adaptation is conversational with the use of simple words and interpretation. The words are easy to understand and contain terms that are usually used in a friendly conversation with close friends. Therefore the intended audience is most likely a close friend.

hi there!

one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.