Emerson Close Reader 1. Look up and define Transcendentalism.
2. Read page 41. Summarize who Ralph Waldo Emerson’s biography.
3. Explain the 5 W’s on the “Transcendental Club.”4.
Read from Self-Reliance pages 44-46. *Always cite Text Evidence or Quote as Support!
4. Explain what every man should “arrive at” in his/her education according to Emerson.
5. What does Emerson mean by “trust thyself”?
6. What is a “nonconformist”?
7. What is the central idea between lines 12-24?
8. Explain Emerson’s response to what “other people think.”
9. How does Emerson’s idea of being a nonconformist, and not caring what other people think present examples to prove his argument about misunderstood people? Explain.

byron utilizes literary techniques to emphisize the illustration of the woman in the poem “she walks in beauty”.

for instance, he uses alliteration to use repetitive consonant sounds when he is writing a word at the beginning of a phrase. he uses personification to give personality to a thing or action. he uses imagery when he is describing the woman. we also can find metaphors to better compare a moment.

these techniques add to the reader’s experience of beauty when the author describes the woman physical beauty and the purity of her mind, using imagery.  

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1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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the autor of the text is bringing the point that one achievment of the president john f. kennedy was a success and this caused the next president to use a similar idea. the purposefor the use of the quotation in the text is to support the idea that peace corps was a result of the president's call. in this case, the quotation is presented as part of the writing and does not stand on its own.

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