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Student Name: Review the following concepts and skills:Claim-Cite-Clarify-Connect structure (you will reorganize paragraphs to fit this structure)MLA citations (you will need to identify correct citation format)Define the following terms:Allusion- Imagery-Parallelism-Metaphor- Personification-Point-of-View1st person- 3rd person objective-3rd person limited-3rd person omniscient POV-Plot structureExposition-Inciting Incident-Rising Action-Climax-Falling Action-Final Event-Resolution-Declaration of Independence“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness….” What does Jefferson mean by “all men are created equal”?What is the following quote justifying in the Declaration? “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”What kind of rhetoric is used in the following quote? “He is at this time transporting large armies … to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny.…”Bill of RightsWhat does this amendment state/protect? Amendment IX The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.What does the following amendment state/protect? Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.What does this amendment state/protect? Amendment VIII Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah EquianoWhy did the author include the following quote? “One day [the white slave traders] had taken a number of fishes; and when they had killed and satisfied themselves with as many as they thought fit, to our astonishment who were on deck, rather than give any of them to us to eat, as we expected, they tossed the remaining fish into the sea again, although we begged and prayed for some as well as we could, but in vain….”What style choices does the author use in the following quote and why? “The stench of the hold while we were on the coast was so intolerably loathsome, that it was dangerous to remain there for any time … but now that the whole ship’s cargo were confined together, it became absolutely pestilential.”Letter to John AdamsIn her “Letter to John Adams,” Abigail Adams writes, “I have sometimes been ready to think that the passion for liberty cannot be equally strong in the breasts of those who have been accustomed to deprive their fellow creatures of theirs.” What does this statement mean?What rhetorical technique does Abigail Adams use in the following quote and why? "I wish you would ever write me a letter half as long as I write you; and tell me if you may where your fleet are gone? What sort of defense Virginia can make against our common enemy? Whether it is so situated as to make an able defense?"WaldenWhich literary device/element is featured in the following lines? "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swatch and shave close, to drive life into a corner...""I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life..." is an indirect ______________Self-RelianceIn the selection from “Self-Reliance,” the author notes that SOCIETY “loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.” How would you describe the attitude, or tone, expressed about society in that comment?What literary device is used in this excerpt? “Society is a joint-stock company in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.”“Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” In the selection from “Self-Reliance,” what purpose is most likely served by mentioning Socrates, Jesus, Galileo, and the others?NatureWhat does the author mean by the following statement? "In the woods is perpetual youth.”What metaphor does Emerson use in “Nature” for himself when he reaches this new level of sight/understanding/connection in the woods?Civil DisobedienceWhat does the following quote reveal about Thoreau’s views? “I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.”What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?What rhetorical device does Douglass use in the following quote? "The sunlight that brought light and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me."What rhetorical device does Douglass use in the following excerpt? “Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty? That he is the rightful owner of his own body? You have already declared it. Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery?”Summarize this excerpt in your own words. “The manhood of the slave is conceded. It is admitted in the fact that Southern statute books are covered with enactments forbidding, under severe fines and penalties, the teaching of the slave to read or to write. When you can point to any such laws in reference to the beasts of the field, then I may consent to argue the manhood of the slave.”How does Douglass judge the “conduct of this nation” throughout his Fourth of July speech?What argument is Douglass supporting when he presents the following evidence and reasoning? “Is it not astonishing that, while we are ploughing, planting, and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges … and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave, we are called upon to prove that we are men!”Why does Douglass say to his audience that “The Fourth of July is yours, not mine”?Persuasion/RhetoricWhat rhetorical appeal is being used in the above advertisement and why?What rhetorical appeal is being used in the above advertisement and why? ................
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