... observe Puck's rhythmic talents in his monologue that begins "Now the hungry lion roars," (ll. 357-76) for example. The speech is rhythmically uniform, generally following a trochee tetrameter pattern . The banal element is evident in his deliberate trickery - for example, the turning of Bottom into an ass (ll. 101-6), the prank pulled on the elderly aunt , or his enticement of a "fat ... observe Puck's rhythmic talents in his monologue that begins "Now the hungry lion roars," (ll. 357-76) for example. The speech is rhythmically uniform, generally following a trochee tetrameter pattern ...

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... which is that "the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see" and "in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance" (199). In order words, it is easier to make more meaningful choices by paying attention and becoming aware of what is going ... ...

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... myself. But this Rolls Royce was not so fortunate. Of course a Rolls Royce is a striking and ostentatious symbol of disproportion or unfairness. For some it can stir up this rather banal kind of mean-spiritedness. It is similar in character to this comment from a neo fascist web site. The reds are the biggest hypocrites of the past two centuries. They claim ... ...

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