WRITING TASK: (Answer the following question in a well-developed 6-8 sentence paragraph. Your response must include your
position on the issue, clear reasoning and justification to support your position, and at least 2 quotes from the
poems read in class.)
Would Hughes be pleased with modern America and its evolution since the time of his writing?

Read these sentences from the excerpt: i would sometimes say to them, i wished i could be as free as theywould be when they got to be men. "you will be free as soon as you aretwenty-one, but i am a slave for life! have not l as good a right to befree as you have? how does the use of a rhetorical question advance the author's purposeof showing that all people deserve freedom? it shows the reader that douglass is unsure of hisstatements.it indicates that douglass believes he deserves freedom.oit demonstrates that douglass is questioning his beliefs.it reminds the reader that some questions areunanswerable

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?

Edgar allan poe uses many sound devices in his poem "the bells." which two words from the poem are examples of onomatopoeia?