Answer:
The repetition and connotations of words emphasizes that slaveholders were merciless.
Explanation:
The excerpt you were given is the following:
Sugar plantations were Hell because of the endless labor they demanded from slaves. They were Hell because of the many dangers and the injuries that they caused. They were Hell because the slaves who labored without end got nothing for their work except to live another day, to work more. But none of these miseries was the true reason the plantations were so evil. The plantations were Hell because the masters and overseers were treated as gods-which turned them into devils. The English historian Lord Acton famously said, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." That is a perfect description of sugar Hell. Men with absolute power over their slaves acted like creatures we would otherwise meet only in nightmares. Their cruelty had no limit-they preferred to kill their slaves rather than fear them. As Equiano explained the island of Montserrat requires 20,000 new Negroes annually, to fill up the vacant places of the dead.
Each word has two meanings:
- Denotation - the word's literal meaning;
- Connotation - the cultural or emotional association the word carries.
We can see that the author repeats the phrase <em>they were Hell </em>several times. This phrase has a negative meaning because of the word <em>Hell</em>. If something is described as <em>Hell</em>, we know that it's something very bad. That's how the conditions the slaves were in are described, and the repetition of this phrase only emphasizes how horrible it was, showing us how merciless the slaveholders were.
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C) highlighting each pattern in a different color and noting questions using the same color ink
Answer:
The following excerpt is True.
Explanation:
Richie eventually goes to war and is wounded but not fatally.
Peewee’s wounds are serious enough to earn him a discharge from the army. Peewee and Richie fly home on the same plane, along with caskets containing dead soldiers.
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Answer:
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Explanation:
were Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans who lived in areas adjacent to the Susquehanna River and its tributaries ranging from its upper reaches in the southern part of what is now New York (near the lands of the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy), through eastern and central Pennsylvania west of the Poconos and the upper Delaware River (and the Delaware nations), with lands extending beyond the mouth of the Susquehanna in Maryland along the west bank of the Potomac[3] at the north end of the Chesapeake Bay.
