Take any four lines from this poem—either consecutive or sporadic lines—and show how at least three of these literary devices are applied: metaphor, assonance, sibilance, tone, and/or imagery. Discuss how these techniques help you to understand or experience the poem's meaning or impact. Your answer should be at least 250 words.

What distinguishes the dialogue of this excerpt most clearly as a work of the postmodern era?

Read this excerpt from patrick henry's speech ''give me liberty or give me death.'' what is the main idea of the text

In order really to hate white people, one has to blot so much out of the mind — and the heart — that this hatred itself becomes an exhausting and self-destructive pose. but this does not mean, on the other hand, that love comes easily: the white world is too powerful, too complacent, too ready with gratuitous humiliation, and, above all, too ignorant and too innocent for that.which sentence best explains how the use of parallelism in the excerpt supports baldwin's purpose? a. it proves baldwin's central idea by highlighting the obvious.b. it emphasizes the problems that prevent one from loving the white world.c. it explains why the white world is unable to replace hate with love.d. it enumerates the many ways of dealing with the white world.