The famous quotation from Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet “A

The famous quotation from Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" well illustrates ______.
A、the arbitrary nature of language
B、the creative nature of language
C、the universality of language
D、the big difference between human language and animal communication
【正确答案】：A
【题目解析】：What Juliet says in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet makes a lot of sense: “What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”From this quotation we can say that what matters is what something is, not what or how it is called. This reveals the truth about the arbitrariness of language.