read the quotation from "to the king's most excellent majesty." ���great god, direct, and guard him from on high, and from his h
ead let ev'ry evil fly!��� how does the couplet form support the meaning of the lines? a. by completing the speaker���s thought b. by emphasizing the relationship between the speaker and the king c. by describing the king���s actions d. by expressing the speaker���s sarcasm
The correct answer is a. by completing the speaker thought. "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty 1768" is a poem written by Phillis Wheatley. The poem dealt with King George and God. The poem praises King George. In "to the king's most excellent majesty", Wheatley expresses the nation's gratitude to King George III for the repeal of the Stamp Act. Wheatley neoclassical influence is the personification of such abstraction as virtue, recollection, imagination, and humanity.
I might feel honored because George Washington himself, the model of a modern major general
, the venerated Virginian veteran, would've helped me. He freed America from the British in the American Revolution.
