Mia is writing a literary argument about James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” This is her thesis: The poem conveys the idea that it is worth enduring hardships to gain freedom.

Which sentence best supports Mia’s claim?

A.
The text describes the “gloomy past,” but emphasizes freedom as “the white gleam of our bright star.”
B.
The text emphasizes that freedom should be sung as “high as the listening skies” and as “loud as the rolling sea.”
C.
Johnson describes the hardships with phrases such as “weary feet” and “gloomy past.”
D.
Johnson emphasizes the difficult journey toward freedom with the phrase “dark past.”

In 1808, their friend, the romantic poet clemens brentano, asked them to collect all types of folk tales so he could use them in a book of literary fairy tales. in 1810, they sent him fifty-four texts, which they fortunately copied. fortunately, because brentano then lost the manuscript in the ölenberg monastery in alsace and never used the grimms’ texts. when they realized that brentano was not going to use the tales, they decided, upon the advice of another romantic writer and mutual friend, achim von arnim, to publish their collection. it had grown to eighty-six tales, which they published in 1812, and then another seventy, which they published in 1815. –“how the grimm brothers saved the fairy tale,” jack zipes what structural technique does the writer use in this passage? the writer describes events in chronological order. the writer describes events in their order of importance. the writer provides a central idea and then lists examples. the writer shows how the grimms made mistakes and then solved them.