Read the following stanza from "loveliest of trees, the cherry now," by a. e. housman.

and since to look at things in bloom
fifty springs are little room,
about the woodlands i will go
to see the cherry hung with snow.
what tone does the poet create through his word choice in this stanza?
a. daring
b. eager
c. loving
d. unpleasant

What phrase from "speech after being convicted of voting" most engages the audience's sense of pathos, or their emotions?

Which sentence does not contain an intensive pronoun? a) i guess i will just take out the trash myself. b) while treating herself to lunch, angie ran into an old friend. c) tony himself made dinner last night even though he hates to cook. d) lisa wondered if she herself was the one who left the oven on all day.

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ”go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. what is one way that douglass achieves his purpose of persuading the reader to see his point of view? by relating as many facts and statistics to the reader as possibleby using familiar and casual language to make the reader feel comfortableby using gentle language to evoke a sense of calm and tranquilityby repeating the word “you” to directly relate to the reader