<span>When the boys started hurting each other. They were acting like uncivilized, brutal, cruel, barbaric animals. </span>
<span>Paraphrasing a new article without identifying the source.
</span>Forgetting to use quotes when quoting someone
<span>Noting that Shakespeare was born in England, without including an in text citation or reference list for the source.
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<span>Because of all the immigration, America became one big melting pot. The diversity of cultures from all over the world made America somewhat divided as well.
People that immigrated stayed with their kind, and their traditions, while native born Americans stayed with their kind and their traditions.
Normally, people born in American scorned the immigrants as well. The new religions also divided America. In summary, it took away from the American culture and identified America as the "Melting Pot."</span>
The word that BEST describes Douglass's diction in this excerpt is
A. formal
This quote has no mention of a deity (divine authority) or society as a whole (civil obedience), and the only mention of gender is the author's reference to his sibling as "brother." The final line "<span>I won't be caught betraying him." drives the assumption that failing to do his "duty to [his] brother" would violate some sort of bond between he and his brother. Since we only know this relationship as familial, we must assume familial loyalty is the theme.</span>