HEL PLEAS. As American colonists questioned British rule, public discussion focused on topics such as colonial independence and individual rights. In turn, literature from the American Revolutionary period often reflected important political and social themes, including national independence, personal liberty, and individualism. In your opinion, how does the literature of this period influence future generations of American literature? Where have you seen traces of these themes and how were they presented in the other literature you read?

Match each stanza structure to the correct term. a stanza of two lines quatrain a stanza of four lines octave a stanza of six lines couplet a stanza of eight lines sestet arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth

Compare how this myth is portrayed in the painting and in the text. is the mood similar or different? how do the painter and the author create these moods

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.