Why might Maya Angelou have chosen to include this episode in her autobiography? What were her feelings about this day’s importance when it was happening? What are her feelings about it as an adult? How does her use of language, and especially figurative language, help to reveal her feelings about her relationship with Mrs. Flowers? Consider the central or main ideas being developed in the excerpt, and how they are connected to what you know about the rest of Angelou’s life. Refer to specific details and examples of figurative language from the text to support your ideas.

Go, wondrous creature! mount where science guides, go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; instruct the planets in what orbs to run, correct old time, and regulate the sun; which statement is correct? antithesis is used in the first two lines. antithesis is used in the last two lines. parallelism is used in the first two lines. parallelism is used in the last two lines.

How does the poem’s mood and tone change in each of these stages? odes and elgies

Multiple ! in this excerpt from act i, scene vi, of macbeth, duncan praises the atmosphere in the castle and the hospitality of his hostess. identify two reasons that these comments are ironic. duncan: this castle hath a pleasant seat: the air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle sense. . . (enter lady macbeth.) duncan: see, see, our honour'd hostess! — the love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we as love. herein i teach you how you shall bid god ild us for your pains, and us for your trouble. he will meet his death in the castle, which he considers a pleasant place. his praise for inverness and his hostess, lady macbeth, is deceptive. duncan secretly plans to give macbeth's title to donalbain. the hostess he praises is actually plotting his murder.