Douglass says that the holidays on plantations "are part and parcel of gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery." in what way were holidays a bad thing for enslaved people? a. the plantation owners got the slaves so drunk on holidays that the slaves believed they could not care for themselves. b. the slaves were forced to work on holidays while the plantation owners relaxed and played. c. the plantation owners took the extra time on holidays to beat and discipline slaves. d. the plantation owners accused slaves of stealing holiday food and gifts.

4.in those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. •type of figurative language: •meaning of figurative language: •effect on tone and mood: •effect on audience: choose out of these: hyperbole, irony, historical question, paradox, allusion,metaphor,personification,symbolism and simile

Read the excerpt from part 3 of the call of the wild. but it was in giving the law and making his mates live up to it, that buck excelled. dave and sol-leks did not mind the change in leadership. it was none of their business. their business was to toil, and toil mightily, in the traces. so long as that were not interfered with, they did not care what happened. billee, the good-natured, could lead for all they cared, so long as he kept order. the rest of the team, however, had grown unruly during the last days of spitz, and their surprise was great now that buck proceeded to lick them into shape. what theme is most supported by the ideas in this excerpt? good leaders are strong and intelligent. loyalty can be a very powerful force. only the strong survive in the wilderness. we are all ruled by our natural instincts.

Based on structural elements what type of expository text does this excerpt from a 1917 congressional address by president woodrow wilson exemplify