Consider the word choice in the second stanza, and then answer the questions. The denotation of gale is “a strong wind.” What is the connotation of gale as it is used in the second stanza of the poem?

✔ a destructive wind

How would the poem’s meaning change if Dickinson had used the word breeze instead?

✔ Hope would seem less powerful.

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