Literature of the Civil Rights Movement

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Reason “Vacant Lot” and “Worlds” should be identified as lyric poems?

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They both express a single speaker’s thoughts in a musical way.

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Which important phrase does the author repeat throughout his memoir?
Options: come to you easily, Silent observer, Awkward ducklings, slow and steady

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slow and steady

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vocation

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a calling to a given profession

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Plausible (Grandma always said that his war stories ranged from factual to plausible to outright false depending on Grandpa's mood.)

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Possibly true or believable

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disengaged

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uninvolved or lacking connection to something or someone

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Identify the example: Using words like slashed rather than reduced, dreadful rather than bad, triumphant rather than successful, and superior rather than better.

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Charged Language

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What rhetorical device is used in the phrase: "People don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan."?

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Antithesis

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What rhetorical device is used in the sentence: "I looked under the table, behind the bookcase, and above the refrigerator."?

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Parallelism

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Our lives are much like a book with a beginning, middle and an end and the chapters serve as the events in our lives.

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Analogy

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Identify the rhetorical device: Every morning we make coffee, fry eggs, and squeeze oranges for our breakfast.

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Parallelism