Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this story. which text from the story to create the dreamlike tone in “the masque of the red death”? "
a: there were buffoons, there were improvisation, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was beauty, there was wine."
b: "no pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous."
c: "there were arabesque figures with unsuited limbs and appointments. there were delirious fancies such as the madman fashions."
d: "the apartments were so irregularly disposed that the vision embraced but little more than one at a time."

Choose the word or phrase that best matches the word in italics that he could do something so contemptible was hard to believe a. worthy of respect b. deserving to be despised c. amazing d. amusing

What words or phrases you to recognize the historical context of the line 7

Iam for the "immediate, unconditional, and universal" enfranchisement of the black man, in ev [loud applause.] without this, his liberty is a mockery; without this, you might as well almost slavery for his condition; for in fact, if he is not the slave of the individual master, he is the slay liberty as a privilege, not as a right. he is at the mercy of the mob, and has no means of protec how does the repetition of the phrase "without this" support the paragraph's argument? it reinforces the idea that without equality in the us, the idea of a free society is a joke. it suggests that a free society is possible, with or without equal rights for all people. it indicates that douglass would be content without material possessions or status. it proposes that slavery will not be abolished in the us without the support of all citizens.