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Second Reading: What Does It Mean?
Now that you have examined the painting carefully, what inferences can you make? How do you interpret what you see? In other words, what might you say about the figures that goes beyond what is explicitly shown in the image?
Third Reading: How Do you Know?
Explain the connection between the details you notice and your interpretation of these details. How might you use the details in the painting as textual evidence to support the inferences you have made?
Writing Prompt: Now that you have carefully examined the content of this painting and have drawn conclusions about what it shows explicitly and what inferences you can make about its meaning, write a paragraph that makes a connection between this painting and the passage from Twelfth Night. Be sure to:
• Write a topic sentence that connects the two texts.
• Include textual details and explain how they support your connection. • Write a conclusion that follows from your explanations.
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