Answer:
The literary technique used in all three examples is <u>metaphor</u>.
Explanation:
<u>A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes an indirect comparison. </u>Unlike a simile -- a direct comparison --, which uses the support words "as" or "like", a metaphor does not use any support words. It simply states that thing A is thing B, instead of thing A is like thing B. For example:
- Your eyes are like stars. -- simile
- Your eyes are stars. -- metaphor
The purpose of a metaphor is to attribute the characteristics of one thing to another by comparing them, even if in reality they are not similar at all. When I say someone's eyes are stars, I don't mean it literally, of course. I refer to their beautiful brightness.
<u>That is precisely what Douglass does in all three examples in the question. Slavery does not literally have bitter dregs. It is not a dark night. The vessels were not ghosts. Douglass is making these indirect comparisons to attribute characteristics of one thing to the other. On dark nights, we can feel scared, lost, hopeless. By saying slavery is a dark night, Douglass may mean slavery made him feel that way.</u>
<span>alliteration, assonance, consonance, and imagery
</span><span>Alliteration is the repetition of the initial sounds of adjacent words.
"</span><span>In the misty mid region of Weir—"
"</span>with Psyche, my Soul"
"<span>were withering"</span>
Consonance<span> is the repetition of </span><span>Consonants.
"</span><span>ghoul-haunted "
"</span><span>cypress"
"</span>sulphurous currents down Yaanek"
Assonance<span> likewise, is the repetition of </span><span>Vowels
</span>"<span>woodland of Weir"
"</span>sulphurous currents down Yaanek"
Imagery is an author's use of vivid and descriptive language to add depth to their work.
"<span>The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crispéd and sere—
The leaves they were withering and sere;"
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Answer:
a victim
Explanation:
Definition of be/fall prey to
1 : to be killed by (an animal, disease, etc.) The deer fell prey to coyotes. Many people fell prey to disease. 2 : to be harmed or affected in a bad way by (someone or something) After the accident, she was prey to all kinds of anxieties.
The crrect nswer is C. The pursuit of knowledge
The advisor is giving a speech about how to become a "man of science," and s/he is arguing that in order to become one, one should study every branch of natural philosophy and not just one specialty. Natural philosophy was a term used during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to refer to Natural Sciences before science emerged as an institutionalized and rational method of studying the reality. The advisor also contrasts the concept of "man of science" with "petty experimentalist," which is that that one would become if you do not apply yourself to the study of every branch of science. Here, the speaker is stressing the importance of learning about different fields of study, in order to think out of the box and make connections between different topics that, other way, could not be made. This is the main difference between a man of science, who searches for true knowledge, and petty experimentalists, who just apply themselves to a particular field of study.
