ASSIGNMENT: After reading (and re-reading! "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass (Page 289), answer the follow questions thoroughly. Use complete sentences and -- where
indicated -- direct or indirect quotes from the speech.
1. What is a rhetorical question?
2. Quote two places in the speech where a series of rhetorical questions are asked.
3. What is a counterclaim?
4. Quote an example of a counterclaim in the speech.
5. How does Douglass answer your example of counterclaim?
6. What is parallelism?
7. Quote two places where Douglass uses parallelisms.
8. What is the type of parallelism called where you repeat a word or phrase at the beginning of successive
sentences?
9. What is evidence?
10. Quote an example of Douglass using evidence to support his claims.

Which excerpt from the war of the worldseffectively reveals how the author relates the climax of the narrative through the narrator's thoughts? the war of the worldsall this had happened with such swiftness that i had stood motionless, dumbfounded and dazzled by the flashes of light. had that death swept through a full circle, it must inevitably have slain me in my surprise. but it passed and spared me, and left the night about me suddenly dark and unfamiliar.and then, with a renewed horror, i saw a round, black object bobbing up and down on the edge of the pit. it was the head of the shopman who had fallen in, but showing as a little black object against the hot western sun.at that time it was quite clear in my own mind that the thing had come from the planet mars, but i judged it improbable that it contained any living creature. i thought the unscrewing might be automatic.my mind ran fancifully on the possibilities of its containing manuscript, on the difficulties in translation that might arise, whether we should find coins and models in it, and so forth. yet it was a little too large for assurance on this idea. i felt an impatience to see it opened.