Select the correct text in the passage.
which words in this excerpt from the declaration of independence are emotionally charged?
nor have we been wanting in attentions to our british brethren. we have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to
extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. we have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. we have
appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these
usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. they too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of
consanguinity. we must therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind,
enemies in war, in peace friends.
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Follow the directions (and example) given to create your own sonnet. william shakespeare's sonnet 130 my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, coral is far more red, than her lips red, if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun: if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head: i have seen roses damasked, red and white, but no such roses see i in her cheeks, and in some perfumes is there more delight, than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. i love to hear her speak, yet well i know, that music hath a far more pleasing sound: i grant i never saw a goddess go, my mistress when she walks treads on the ground. and yet by heaven i think my love as rare, as any she belied with false compare. instructions: write fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. use a sonnet rhyme scheme. use the first eight lines to set up your idea (the octave). use the last six lines to conclude your idea (sestet). (variety may be added by including a substitute foot from time to time such as the two anapests in line 3 above.) work in small groups giving each other feedback. reading the sonnet aloud allows you to hear the words and rhythms of the lines. generate questions that will clarify the use of words and forms. for example: was the idea of the sonnet presented in the first eight lines? how was sound used to enhance the meaning of the sonnet?