Analyzing Language in a Personal Narrative Instruction Active Classifying Strong Verbs and Precise Adjectives Verbs Adjectives Drag and drop the strong verbs and precise adjectives under the correct category on the right A city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on the plantation. He is much better fed and ciothed, and enjoys privileges altogether unknown to the slave on the plantation. There is a vestige of decency, a sense of shame, that does much to curb and check those outbreaks of atrocious cruelty so commonly enacted upon the plantation. He is a desperate slaveholder, who will shock the humanity of his nonslavehoiding neighbors with the cries of his lacerated slave.​