Mia is writing a literary argument about James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” This is her thesis: The poem conveys the idea that it is worth enduring hardships to gain freedom.

Which sentence best supports Mia’s claim?

A.
The text describes the “gloomy past,” but emphasizes freedom as “the white gleam of our bright star.”
B.
The text emphasizes that freedom should be sung as “high as the listening skies” and as “loud as the rolling sea.”
C.
Johnson describes the hardships with phrases such as “weary feet” and “gloomy past.”
D.
Johnson emphasizes the difficult journey toward freedom with the phrase “dark past.”

In shakespeare’s hamlet what word can be substituted for allusion in the phrase the illusion is that not only does larry us die as expected but hamlet is doomed to die by the poison on his own sword as

Read the excerpt from "save the redwoods."another, one of the finest in the grove, more than three hundred feet high, was skinned alive to a height of one hundred and sixteen feet from the ground and the bark sent to london to show how fine and big that calaveras tree was—as sensible a scheme as skinning our great men would be to prove their greatness. which  best  describes how the excerpt appeals to readers’ emotions? the excerpt provides facts about the tree, which impresses readers’ scientific minds. the excerpt describes how the tree traveled to london, which excites the readers’ sense of adventure. the excerpt compares the tree to a person, which makes readers feel sympathetic toward the tree. the excerpt explains how to skin a tree, which makes readers feel awed at the height of the tree.

What is included in the body of a business letter ?