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Sample: I. Content Score: 8. This well-organized essay demonstrates competence in analyzing how youth is celebrated in the poem; it earned a score of 8. The essay integrates an insightful analysis of the celebration of youth with discussion of poetic language and devices.
A well-developed essay that analyzes how youth is celebrated in the poem. Textual analysis outweighs description and paraphrasing. Discusses how poetic language and devices are used in the poem to communicate this theme. Commentary is supported with specific textual references.
El Alacran de Fray Gomez. Ricardo Palma. In diebus illis—that is to say, when I was a boy—I often heard old women say, in praising the beauty or value of a piece of jewelry: “It’s as valuable as Fray Gómez’s scorpion.”. I’ve got a little girl who is a treasure, everything that is winning and delightful, with a pair of eyes that ...
15 maj 2009 · written by Ricardo Palma. [I] pp. 134 – 142. There was an expression, so the narrator says, that ¡Esto vale tanto como el alacrán de fray Gómez! (135). How did this expression come about? From a miracle-working priest friar named Gómez… I. He was born religious and worked in a hospital as a youth.
"El alacrán de fray Gómez" by Ricardo Palma annotated by Andrew Franklin A Casimiro Prieto Valdés Principio, principiando; principiar quiero por ver si principiando principiar puedo. In diebus illis, digo, cuando yo era muchacho, oía con frecuencia a lasviejas exclamar, ponderando el mérit...
For example, a horseback rider fell to the ground, and everyone was already calling for the moribund holy oils to be put on him. Fray Gómez walks over, puts his cord in his mouth, and says three prayers.
El buhonero se deshizo en frases de agradecimiento, se despidió de fray Gómez y más que de prisa se encaminó a la tienda de un usurero. La joya era espléndida, verdadera alhaja de reina morisca, por decir lo menos. Era un prendedor figurando un alacrán.
