Both passages describe extravagant parties where guests are wearing masks.
Use the passages to answer the question.
What do these two passages have in common?(1 point)
Responses
Both have rich fathers giving a birthday party for
their daughters,
Both have rich fathers giving a birthday party for their daughters,
Both contain detailed descriptions of the setting.
Both contain detailed descriptions of the setting.
Both describe music being played by professional
Mexican bands.
Both describe music being played by professional Mexican bands.
Both are set at a party where people are wearing
masks.
Both are set at a party where people are wearing masks.
from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Enter Capulet, with Juliet and others of his house, meeting the
Guests and Maskers
Capulet
Welcome, gentlemen! ladies that have their toes
Unplagu'd with coms will have a bout with you. —
Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all
Will now deny to dance? she that makes dainty,
She, I'll swear. hath corns; am | come near ye now?—
Welcome, gentlemen! | have seen the day
That | have worn a visor and could tell
A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear,
‘Such as would please; ‘tis gone, ‘tis gone, ‘tis gone. —
You are welcome, gentlemen—Come, musicians, play.—
A hall, a hall give room! and foot it, girls. — [Music plays, and
they dance]
More light, you knaves: and turn the tables up.
And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot.—
Ah, sirrah, this unlook'd-for sport comes well —
Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet,
For you and I are past our dancing days.
How long is ‘t now since last yourself and I
Were in a mask?
from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Shame the Stars
by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Before us was the most extravagant birthday party | had ever
attended. Lupita's parents weren't rich, not by any means. It
was obvious her parents had called in many favors from
friends and family. The live music was not being provided by
the usual conjunto group, but a long-tailed band. The musicos
were Mexican, but they weren't local, certainly no group I'd
ever seen before.
The decorations were beyond extravagant. The whole room
was swathed in wide colorful ribbons. The swatches of cloth
extended from the ceiling at the center of the room, billowing
outward in every direction. At the edge of the ceiling, the giant
ribbons were fastened with enormous bows and dropped
downward, elegantly draping the walls until they dusted the
floor. Every table had a different-colored skirt, and on every
runner lay a huge elaborately decorated chest with bedazzled
fans; long beaded necklaces; and assorted jewels the guests
could crown and pin on each other, layering them on one after
another until they looked like royals.
As we moved into the warmly lit room, staying in the shadows
by skirting the cold stucco wall, masked girls dressed in rich,
luxurious, long dresses walked past us, giggling with their
friends. Some of the more sedate ones sat at elegantly draped
tables with their sisters and mamas, waiting to be asked to
dance by the masked boys milling around the room.
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