Imagery is the rhetorical tool writers use to creates mental images in a writer's mind by using descriptive words. Denotation and connotation are tricky but fun; denotation is the exact meaning of a word, while connotation is the mood it invokes or how it comes across. For instance, "tug" and "heave" have the same denotation or definition, but "heave" sounds a lot more laborious or hard, which makes gives it a different connotation.
Don't use my definition; make your own or look up the precise meaning in a dictionary, but at least that's a start.
You can find your own examples in the poem (you got this!), but here's a quick guideline:
For imagery, find a line or phrase that is so descriptive, you can almost see it. For denotation and connotation, find two words whose meanings are similar but that take on different tones.
As for supporting your answers with the Declaration of Emancipation, you'll have to do your research. I'll help clarify, but ultimately, the answer's yours :)
The link below is a great one for predicate pronouns: http://classroom.synonym.com/predicate-nouns-predicate-pronouns-8597110.html
To be honest, I'm not skilled in predicate pronouns, so don't take my word for this. What I WILL do, however, is give you a good test-taking tip that could help you narrow down your answer:
All four answer choices contain the phrase "the winners of the contest", so you know that if the predicate pronoun were in *that* phrase, all four answer choices would contain it. To simplify your answer choices, replace that phrase with a placeholder (I'll use x):
Justin and Meg are x. X are they. X are Justin and Meg. X are excited.
Here's another tip: If you look at options one and three, they're the exact same sentence, just switched around. There are no words added or taken away, so either they're both right, or they're both wrong. That leaves your options as these:
#2. The winners of the contest are they. #4. The winners of the contest are excited.
The only difference between these two are that one contains a pronoun (*hint hint hint*) and the other contains an adjective. Once again, I'm not familiar with predicates, but go with your gut on this, and good luck!
consonance and dissonance<span> are categorizations of simultaneous or successive harmonic sounds that produces vibrancy and balance. Despite the contrasting tones of each, these two produce harmonious balance which in turn creates a symphony. </span>
<span>One advantage of asymmetrical balance is the feeling is more casual</span><span>than that of a formal symmetrical portrait.
That's why this balance is also called informal balance and is used to highlight the delicate sense of balance that occurs in everyday life.</span>
The answer is <span>a post–World War II </span>art <span>movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western </span>art<span> world, a role formerly filled by Paris.</span>
<span>The Harpsichord was invented before the piano. A harpsichord is like a piano in that you press a key to manipulate the strings. However, in a piano, when you press the key it causes a hammer to strike the string, and when you press a key on a harpsichord it causes a plectrum to pluck the string. A plectrum is like a quill and so when you play a harpsichord it can only play one volume. On a piano, when you push a key soft it will play soft and when you push it hard it will play loud. It's original name was a piano forte which is Italian for soft/loud.
