Why did shakespeare's noble characters speak in iambic pentameter while commoners spoke mainly in blank verse or prose?
a. to make the noble class sound silly and snobbish so that the commoners in the audience could laugh at them
b. to demonstrate his own intelligence and prove that he was also a part of the noble class
c. to show that shakespeare respected the nobility and held the lower classes in contempt
d. to create a distinction between the educated nobility and the coarse lower classes

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. isn’t this like condemning socrates because his unswerving commitment to truth and his philosophical inquiries precipitated the act by the misguided populace in which they made him drink hemlock? isn’t this like condemning jesus because his unique god consciousness and never ceasing devotion to god’s will precipitated the evil act of crucifixion? what rhetorical technique does martin luther king employ in this excerpt from “letter from birmingham jail”? select all that apply. allusion extended metaphor figurative language simile