Read this quotation from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Master . . . was not a humane slaveholder. It required extraordinary barbarity on the part of an overseer to affect him. He was a cruel man, hardened by a long life of slaveholding. He would at times seem to take great pleasure in whipping a slave. Which sentence best describes Douglass's attitude toward the slaveholder? He thinks the master is a better man than the overseer. He finds that slave owners are devils. He believes the master has been morally corrupted by owning slaves. He thinks the overseer dislikes whipping enslaved people.

Which words from the excerpt most contribute to the patriotic tone

Demonstrating understanding of jem's development one way to demonstrate understanding of character and theme is by writing from the perspective of a character. for this assignment, compose a short poem from the perspective of jem. your poem should detail his feelings about either a. his father, atticus or b. mrs. dubose. the poem must accurately trace the progression of jem's attitudes and beliefs, highlighting the important events and shifts in his perspective detailed above. your writing should also sound like jem, using voice and word choice that reflects the voice and word choice found in the novel. the poem can be a free poem (meaning it does not need to rhyme or follow a particular format). it should be a minimum of twenty-lines in length, have a title, and follow conventional rules of spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Which part of speech can an adjective modify