Sample Response: "Sea Fever” by John Masefield uses several poetic devices that classify it as a fixed form poem. It has three stanzas of four lines each; it has a repeating aabb, ccdd, eeff rhyme scheme; and each line is about the same length and uses the same rhythmic pattern.
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The answer to Part A would be Ignorant, as the author goes on to state that his youthful understanding had struggled in vain. If someone is ignorant of something, yet they do not take the time to actually go research or learn about that thing, then they would be struggling in vain because they are selfish and not taking time to research what it is that the other person is saying that they do not understand.
For the answer to Part B, I would say that (Frederick) Douglass' new awareness of how owners maintain control over slaves allows him to better understand how to improve his situation. I say this because he seems to have an awakening/epiphany in the very last line: "I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty".
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<span>Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.
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B. Both address the fact that Mrs. Hossack was in the house at the time of her husband’s murder.
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B (short choppy sentences)
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When a sentence is short, instead of being able to add small bits of detail and diolge, you have to make separate paragraphs and sentences to explain. The story would not be as compelling or interesting and would drag on.
