Answer:
D. acknowledge the potentially embarrassing circumstances under which she is delivering her speech
Explanation:
Most of the students at Wellesley College did not want Barbara Bush to speak because they believed that she was only famous because of her husband (president at the time). A majority of the students wanted Alice Walker to give a speech instead, however this did not occur. Bush is trying to use comedic relief in this line to lighten the mood surrounding her speech.
I believe the answer is D. The horrid brute shot stabbing flames from his blackened fingertips.
The correct answer is D. Abolitionists
Explanation:
The speech "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July" by a former slave, Frederick Douglas, focused on showing the Independence Day and its principles such as freedom or liberty in the U.S. did not protect slaves, and therefore the ideals held by many only applied to part of the population. This tried to show the audience the importance of ending slavery and providing slaves the freedoms white people had.
In this context, this speech would be supported by abolitionist (people that wanted to end slavery) and they would be more receptive to it because they supported the idea of providing freedom and protections to slaves and ending enslavement, which is the focs of the speech.
Answer: B) He wants to communicate directly with the readers.
Explanation: From the given options, the sentence that best explains why Walt Whitman uses such a simple phrase as "who I am or what I mean" in the given quotation from "Song of Myself" is the corresponding to option B: He wants to communicate directly with the readers, that is why he uses a simple phrase and also he addresses the reader in a direct way by using the pronoun "you."
