1on july 5, 1852, douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the declaration of independence, held at
rochester's corinthian hall. it was biting oratory, in which the speaker told his audience, "this fourth of july is yours, not mine.
you may rejoice, i must mourn. and he asked them, 'do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to day? "
2 within the now-famous address is what historian philip s. foner has called 'probably the most moving passage in all of
douglass' speeches
3 what, to the american slave, is your 4th of july? i answer a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the
gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. to him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy
license; your national greatness, swelling vanity: your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless your denunciation of tyrants
brass fronted impudence, your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery: your prayers and hymns, your sermons and
givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy a thin
veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. there is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more
shocking and bloody than are the people of the united states, at this very hour.

what is the dominant rhetorical strategy douglass uses in the third paragraph to achieve his purpose?
a)
allusion
b)
metonymy
c)
onomatopoeia
d)
repetition

Read the excerpt from "broken chain." alfonso studied the magazine pictures of rock stars for a hairstyle. he liked the way prince looked—and the bass player from los lobos. alfonso thought he would look cool with his hair razored into a v in the back and streaked purple. but he knew his mother wouldn’t go for it. and his father, who was puro mexicano, would sit in his chair after work, sullen as a toad, and call him "sissy.” what details from the passage would best support a paragraph about conflict between characters?

Read the two excerpts from act 4, scene 3, and act 5, scene 5, of julius caesar. cassius. ha! portia? brutus. she is dead. cassius. how scaped i killing when i crossed you so? o insupportable and touching loss! upon what sickness? brutus. impatient of my absence, and grief that young octavius with mark antony have made themselves so strong—for with her death that tidings came. with this, she fell distraught, and, her attendants absent, swallowed fire. brutus. why this, volumnius. the ghost of caesar hath appeared to me two several times by night—at sardis once, and this last night, here in philippi fields. i know my hour is come. volumnius. not so, my lord. brutus. nay, i am sure it is, volumnius. thou seest the world, volumnius, how it goes. our enemies have beat us to the pit, [low alarums] it is more worthy to leap in ourselves than tarry till they push us. good volumnius, thou know’st that we two went to school together. even for that, our love of old, i prithee, hold thou my sword hilts, whilst i run on it. . so fare you well at once, for brutus’ tongue hath almost ended his life’s history. night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest, that have but laboured to attain this hour. . i prithee, strato, stay thou by thy lord. thou art a fellow of a good respect. thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it. hold then my sword, and turn away thy face while i do run upon it. wilt thou, strato? which statement best compares brutus’s remarks at the death of his wife, portia, to his words before his own death? brutus shows more sadness for portia’s death than he does for his own. brutus is more philosophical about his own death than he is about portia’s. brutus uses more imagery when speaking about portia’s death than about his own. brutus reacts more matter-of-factly about his own death than he does about portia’s.

What experience makes wind-wolf want to stop attending school?