Gwendolyn Brooks, in her poem “Negro Hero: to suggest Dorie Miller,”

repeats the phrase “I had to kick their law into their teeth in order to save them.”

What cannot be said about this phrase?

It is good I gave glory, it is good I put gold on their name (Brooks, line 8)

And my first swallow of the liquor of battle bleeding black

air dying and demon noise (Brooks, lines 24-25)

Brooks uses cacophony and alliteration to mimic the mood and sounds of -

Their white-gowned democracy was my fair lady.

With her knife lying cold, straight, in the softness of her

sweet-flowing sleeve.

But for the sake of the dear smiling mouth and the stuttered

promise I toyed with my life.

Which literary device is used in these lines?

(In a southern city a white man said

Indeed, I’d rather be dead;

Indeed, I’d rather be shot in the head

Or ridden to waste on the back of a flood

Than saved by the drop of a black man’s blood.)

How is Brooks' sixth stanza stylistically different from the rest of the poem?

By putting on the persona of Dorie Miller, Gwendolyn Brooks subverts norms because

In King's letter, he alternates between ethos and logos appeals, laying out his credentials and providing careful explanations, yet the last paragraph on page two is primarily a pathos appeal, an appeal to emotion.

Which words and phrases evoke “empathy” and “sympathy”? Select all that apply.

But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I would like to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.

Which words point to King's friendly corrective tone? Select all.

Ethos: An appeal to ethos is an appeal to credibility. Writers use ethos when they use their own expertise on a topic or cite an expert on the subject. An author might refer to work credentials, degrees, etc. The writer can also “borrow” credibility by citing evidence from another author who is an expert in the topic.

Select all the examples of ethos appeals that King uses in his letter.

Which literary device is most prominent here:

You may well ask, "Why direct action, why sit-ins, marches, and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?"

Which literary device is most prominent here:

Just as the eighth-century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their hometowns; and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Greco-Roman world, I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

Which literary device is most prominent here:

when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she cannot go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television

Pathos reinforces ethos and logos. Pathos can come in a variety of forms, especially personal anecdotes and narratives.

All are personal anecdotes and narratives which King shares in this letter except...

Without knowing the history of thalidomide, what can you infer from this sentence:

"It has been a tranquilizing thalidomide, relieving the emotional stress for a moment, only to give birth to an ill-formed infant of frustration" (King, 2)?

In "Still I Rise," Angelou has two audiences. Those who stand with her and claim the "I" perspective of the poem and who else?

Check all that apply.

In "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou, the second stanza:

Does my sassiness upset you? / Why are you beset with gloom? / ’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells / Pumping in my living room.

Reflects which choices Angelou made.

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise. (Angelou, lines 3-4)

Which literary device is present in these lines?

Angelou accomplishes a tone shift in "Still I Rise" by employing all of these choices except -

In "From Blossoms" by Li-Young Lee, he writes "the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into / the round jubilance of peach."

Adore and jubilance reflect...

In "From Blossoms" by Li-Young Lee, he writes "the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into / the round jubilance of peach."

the best synonyms for adore and jubilance are -