Thursday, November 12, 2009

From the Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass

Figuritive p 563
"i expected every moment that my brains would be dashed out against the trees."

Word choice p 563
"my cart was upset and shattard."

Elaborate p 565
"his coming were like that in the might."

Formal p 565
"my natural elaticity was crushed, my inlet longuished the disposition to read despareted the cheerful spark that lingerd about my eye died."

Conversational p 569
"he spoke to me very kindly, made me drive the pigs from a lot near by and passed on towards the church."

Question 3 Gettysburg Address
*he sees U.S. as being brave
*people who fought are dedicated
*cant forget what they did
*freedom shall not perish from the earth
*we need to pick up on unfinished work

Coming of Age In Mississippi

*one of his good proffesors was John Salter.
*he was poor with no money
*they sat in at a dine in and set in the white sections and wanted to be served. but they wearnt.
*they beat them with brass nuckles. that night there was a rally about the whole day there appalude and talked about how this is just a beginning.

Ballad of Bermingham
Poem by Dudley Randall
* ballad - narrative poem that was orginally meant to be sung.

- poem was about a mother leting her daughter go to church she has explosion and finds her daughters shoe.

Monday, November 9, 2009

5.What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why? i think that it is this "He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people." beacuse it soundsd like hes really mad and pissed off, and that convincing to me.
Definitions
unalienable: that may not be taken away

despotism: absolute power or control; tyranny

transient: passing away with time

usurpations: acts of wrongfully taking over a right or power that belongs to someone else

conjured: appealed to

consanguinity: blood relationship

acquiesce in the necessity which denounces: recognize that we must demand

parallelism: the use of similar grammatical forms to express ideas of equal importance

insurrections: an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance

The list of complaints begins with "He..."
1. Why do they repeat it? - they repeat it because they want to prove their point.
2. Why do they make it personal? - to single the man out. also project it to him that there is only one.

3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change?
they wrote it in parts so that they would stand out and they can see how bad the king was!.
4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece? because to prove their point, to get it across to the King of Britain.

5.What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why