Than may your worthy self from whom it came? In the following lines from Anna Bradstreet's poem "To Her Father with some Verses," what is the best definition for 'ILL"?
I heard you wuz a big man an' had libbed heah a long time, an' I 'lowed you wouldn't min' ef I'd come roun' ax you ef you'd eber heerd of a merlatter man by de name er Sam Taylor 'quirin' roun' in de chu' ches ermongs' de people fer his wife 'Liza Jane?" Charles Waddell Chestnutt What is a word's connotation? the attitudes associated with the word Since words have multiple meanings, the context of a word often provides clues to its meaning better than the dictionary's definition. Da rocks sacred." Cedric Yamanaka "Unmoved, she notes the chariot's pausing at her low gate unmoved, an emporer is kneeling upon her mat." Emily Dickinson "The feller took the money and started away and when he was going out the door, he sorter jerked his thumb over his shoulder-so-at Dan'l, and says again, very deliberate, 'Well,' he says, 'I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.'" Mark Twain "'Scuse me, suh, I's lookin' for my husban'. All of a sudden, my bruddah start screaming, 'Get down from deah. "one day, when I was a kid, I was climbing some rocks looking out at da ocean. Match the author with the regional dialect. Which of the following statements best paraphrases the first sentence of the excerpt above? The appearance of the house depressed me. Using context clues, you conclude that sedges are. Reread the first sentence of the excerpt. What poetic device is used in the sentence "there was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart -"? consonance Using prior excerpt.īased on the style of the excerpt, the author is most likely. What is the author's purpose int this excerpt? to describe Using prior excerpt. I looked upon the scene before me - upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain - upon the bleak walls - upon the vacant eyelike windows - upon a few rank sedges - and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees - with an utter depression of soul, which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the afterdream of the reveler upon opium - the bitter lapse into everyday life - the hideous dropping off of the veil. The sermon "sinners in the hands of an angry god" Early American and Colonial Literature Read following exerpt - then answer questions:
Henry David Thoreau's Walden American Romanticism Match the literary movement or subgenre with the literature. Walt Whitman's poetry American Romanticism Match the literary movement or subgenre with the literature. Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County" Regionalism Match the literary movement or subgenre with the literature. Match the literary movement or subgenre with the literature.
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