Answer:
it means what are you doing right at the moment and you can respond by say nothing or just chilling
General Israel Putnam told his men "Dont fire until you see the whites of there eyes because some of them were too eagar to shoot and he wanted them to shoot at close range so they could hit the enemy. This also saved ammunition and helped them fight better.
The Thoreau feel that the people who serve the state have the same worth as dogs or horses and that they should receive no more respect then a man of straw or a lump of dirt, so these people feel that working for the state rarely make any moral distinctions,and it also says in the paragraph that they are likely to serve the devil. So by this article we can clearly see that they are apposed to any form of serving the state.
I hope this helped :)
Jump and stunt are examples of C. ASSONANCE.
Assonance is where the same vowel sound is repeated at almost all the words.
*Alliteration is where the same sound is found at the beginning of the words. exampel: Being better is better than being bitter.
*Consonance is where the same consonant sound is repeated at almost all the words.
