What does Winston realize about love and loyalty as a result of the dream about the paperweight?

Love and loyalty are fragile and short-lived.  Just like the paperweight which represents them, they are shattered to bits by the thought police.  Their love, represented by the coral centerpiece, is out in the open--fully observable and obvious through the clear glass which surrounds it.  Their loyalty is only intact as long as the paperweight is...after being caught and subjected to Room 101, loyalty falls quickly and without anything other than the threat of Winston's and Julia's greatest fear.  THe fear needs not be carried out...the threat of it alone is enough to demolish the fragile thread of loyalty between them.

What symbolic or ironic function is served by Montresor's name and by his speech after he fetters Fortunato to the wall?

After Montresor chains Fortunato to the wall, he taunts Fortunato with, "Once more let me implore you to return. No? Then I must positively leave you." His plea to Fortunato to return is ironic because Fortunato is unable to leave. Montresor invites him to again feel the nitre just as he did on their trek through the catacombs. Of course, Fortunato cannot feel the nitre either because his hands are in shackles. All through the story, Montresor baits Fortunato, playing a cat-and-mouse game with him. Almost all of Montresor's conversation with Fortunato while walking throught the catacombs is wrought with irony.

As far as Montresor's name is concerned, I'm not sure it has a symbolic or ironic meaning, but Fortunato's name certainly does. The irony lies in the fact that Fortunato is anything but fortunate since he is cruelly led to die from suffocation or starvation.

The Montresor family has a coat of arms and motto that is symbolic. Their coat of arms is a huge human foot crushing a snake that has sunk its fangs into the heel of the foot. Their motto is a Montresor will exact vengeance for any harm that may be done to him. These family symbols represent the horrible murder of Fortunato. Montresor is eaten up with hate for Fortunato which destroys his soul, just like Montresor destroys Fortunato. He truly enjoys his act of revenge.

What do madman, get a bang, hot shot, kick out of it, knocks me out, and racket mean?definitions

These terms are all colorful colloquialisms used by the main character, Holden Caufield, in his narrative.  "Madman" means crazy, like the "stuff that happened to me around last Christmas" (Chapter 1).  To "get a bang" out of something is similar to get a "kick out of it", and both refer to things or events that really amuse someone, like Mr. Spencer's Navajo blanket and the old teacher's joke about his own health, which really struck him as significant and funny, or "knocked him out" (Chapter 2). A "hot shot" is someone who is or acts like he is exceptionally good at something, like Stradlater says Holden is in Mr. Hartzell's English class (Chapter 4); it can also refer to someone who thinks he is better than everybody else. A "racket" is a commotion, or a lot of noise.   

What are two puns found in Act II?

You see an entire play on the word goose in this exchange
between Romeo and Mercutio. Think about the ways that we today use the word goose. We
could use is to say someone is leading us to go all over the place(Mercutio and Benvolio
likely felt this way as they couldn't find Romeo after the party) as if in a wild goose
chase. We call someone a silly goose when they are being goofy. We may even eat goose.
An exchange they even call wit goes on between the two for several
lines:

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MERCUTIO 
Nay, if thy wits run the
wild-goose chase, I have
done, for thou hast more
of the wild-goose in one of
thy wits than, I am
sure, I have in my whole five:
was I with you there for the
goose?

ROMEO 
Thou wast never with me for any
thing when thou wast not there for the
goose.

MERCUTIO 
I will bite
thee by the ear for that jest.

ROMEO 
Nay,
good goose, bite
not.

MERCUTIO 
Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a
most
sharp sauce.

ROMEO 
And is it not well served
in to a sweet
goose?

MERCUTIO 
O here's a wit of cheveril,
that stretches from an
inch narrow to an ell
broad!

ROMEO 
I stretch it out for that word 'broad;' which
added
to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad
goose.

This took place in
scene iv.

Just before the above moment, the two discuss the
lack of courtesy Romeo demonstrated by taking off.

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ROMEO 
Pardon, good
Mercutio, my business was great; and in
such a case as mine a man may strain
courtesy.

MERCUTIO 
That's as much as to say,
such a case as yours
constrains a man to bow in the
hams.

ROMEO 
Meaning, to
court'sy.

MERCUTIO 
Thou hast most kindly hit
it.

ROMEO 
A most courteous
exposition.

MERCUTIO 
Nay, I am
the very pink of
courtesy.

Here connection
between courtesy and court'sy (a female bow) is made. The ideas here are sexual. Romeo
says he had something important to do and had every right to leave the bros. Mercutio
ends up challenging that maybe Romeo was with a girl and her
body.

In the trial scene in To Kill a Mockingbird, when Mayella is testifying, what is Atticus afraid that the jury will assume?

Atticus could be afraid that the jury will believe that
her lies are true just because she is white. It is obvious to the reader that she is
lying but the narrator has to use language like her performance or recital to let us
know that she has practiced what she has to say. If you are telling the truth, you don't
have to practice it, you just have to remember it. The jury doesn't have either the
benefit of living 80 years after the incident like we do, nor do they have the benefit
of having the narration of Harper Lee. All they have are Atticus' leading questions and
Mayella's white testimony. Atticus fears the jury assuming lies to be
truth.

What is the story about?Summary, please.

This is a classic tale about the friendship between a pig, Wilbur, and a spider, Charlotte.  Charlotte is very clever, and she manages to save Wilbur from becoming dinner for the humans by weaving messages in her web about Wilbur, like "Some Pig!"  Wilbur becomes quite famous and is saved because of this friendship with Charlotte.

It is also the story of the relationship between Wilbur and Fern, the little girl who lives on the farm where Wilbur is born.  The story demonstrates how both Fern and Wilbur have to grow and mature and accept the loss and unhappiness that sometimes comes around in life.

Be sure to check the link below for more information, and give the book a thorough reading - I think you'll really enjoy it!

What delusion does Lennie experience as he is waiting for George? Why does he remember this experience in Of Mice and Men?

Lennie sees two different items, well one actually
transforms into the other. He sees his Aunt Clara and he sees a human-sized
bunny.

I think he sees the Aunt because she represents
morality to Lennie. He knows he has done something wrong and the ethos in him is
triggered. The rabbit to me represents the passion of his or that which makes him happy:
soft things, and the hope of livin' off the fatta the lan' one day
with George.

Without George to direct his thoughts after
this severe event, I think his brain's strongest thought processes took
over.