<span>In the 1st half of the 20th century, there were 2 World Wars. Because of that the poetry contains more emotion, so the poetry in that period is a lot heavier.
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The correct answers are the following:
- The reasons that Patrick Henry provides for mobilizing the Virginia militia are: (B) All previous attempts at diplomacy had proven fruitless and (D) The British were mobilizing troops and ships in preparation for a military operation. Patrick Henry's speech became very popular under the name of <em>"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death".</em>
- Thomas Jefferson uses (D) technical language to support his argument. The Declaration of Independence is one of his most persuasive documents.
- Jefferson believes it is the (B) duty and (D) right of people to overthrow their government when their natural rights have been denied them. Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States.
- The spirit in which Stanton appropriates large portions of Jefferson's Declaration of Independence for her Declaration of Sentiments can be described as (C) respectful and (D) reverential. This declaration is also known as <em>"The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments".</em> It outlines the rights that every American woman should have.
- Jefferson's<em> "Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom"</em> (A) guaranteed freedom of religion to people of all faiths and (B) disestablished Anglicanism as the official religion of Virginia. This statement was passed by the Virginia General Assembly in 1786.
- Crevecoeur see the character trait of (C) industriousness as forming the foundation of American equality and success. Michel Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur was a French-American writer who published <em>"Letters from an American Writer"</em> in 1782.
- The phrase <em>"civilly dead"</em> is an example of (A) figurative language. Figurative language has to do with the use of comparisons as a literary device.
Answer:
The French writer tells about the contradictions of this world. For example, if a person values his skills and wants to charge it properly, people usually complain and say that he overestimates himself; however, if a person gives a lower price for his services, people will have doubts in his work.
Explanation:
In this literary work, a person receives an inheritance from his grandson and as he is not greedy, he wants to rent a house for minimal price. He wants to win the hearts of people, but the only thing he did was to bring a bad reputation to the family. So, in this work, the contradictions of human nature can be related to everyday life.
The statement that best describes how the pacing of events heightens tensions is the third one - The fact pace intensifies the conflict between the narrator and Allison.
Generally, the faster the pace, the tensions are heightened because everything is happening so fast. When you are angry, you don't normally talk slowly and quietly, but speak in a quick manner so as to show your emotions.
A theme that Geoffrey Chaucer develops through these two excerpts is that of treachery, since both King Peter of Spain and King Peter of Cyprus were betrayed and their lives ended tragically. King Peter of Spain was betrayed by a man named Bertrand, who had agreed to protect him in exchange for a great compensation, but who eventually handed him over to his half-brother, Henry, who promised him an even greater reward and who assassinated Peter in his tent in 1369, becoming the new king. This is narrated in the excerpt, where Bertrand is compared not with Oliver of Charlemagne, friend of Charlemagne, but with the knight that betrayed him ("No, Oliver of Charlemagne... such a trap!").
Peter I of Cyprus devoting his short yet intense life to fight Islam, and he led the short yet devastating Alexandrian Crusade, but his life ended abruptly. Betrayed by his wife and by some of his closer knights, he was assassinated in his bed also in 1369. This is also referred in the poem ("That conquered Alexandria... on thy bed!").
To sum up, both excerpts revolve around this theme, which they present very similarly: after emphasizing the deeds of the two historical characters, they finalize by regretting their tragic endings.
