Read the following passage, an excerpt from an email newsletter During the congressional recess, Representative Smythe will appear at a local community center. It is our intention to greet him with a warm welcome and invite him to the spelling bee we will be holding outside the center. We encourage him to participate and will offer him words we know he can spell, like cruelty and ignorance.

What information would be necessary for a reader to understand that the passage is meant as satire?

How does this version of "rapunzel" differ from the one you might already know? what archetypes do you see in this story? story will be in the comments

Which is these is not a benefit of parallel structure? a)clarity b)classification c)emphasis d)balance

The harlem renaissance dawned in an era of pervasive racism and segregation. although legally "free," many african americans were still bound by ideas that had their roots in the slavery of earlier centuries. identity and freedom are important ideas presented in many of the poems from the harlem renaissance. furthermore, the values of identity and freedom are not unique to particular times and places. as hughes expresses in "dream variations," all humans want to be able to develop their identities in freedom. what role does freedom play in the poems you read in this unit? what is required of a society to enable each individual to be true to his or her identity and be free to live by that identity? write about at least three of the poems, describing how the poet uses imagery to depict freedom and identity, the lack of it, or the desire for it.