Read the excerpts below and answer the question. *and the thunder would go rumbling and grumbling away, and quit—and then RIP comes another flash and another sockdolager. The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes—

*"Say, who is you? Whar is you? Dog my cats ef I didn’ hear sumf’n. Well, I know what I’s gwyne to do: I’s gwyne to set down here and listen tell I hears it ag’in.”

In at least 150 words, explain how the dialect used by Huck and Jim in these excerpts contributes to the realism of the story.

Based on thoreau's transcendental beliefs, why might he have written an essay opposing the war? to explain the individual's responsibilities within a corrupt society to begin his own political career to call attention to the ways in which the government was essentially good to express his lack of interest in societal issues

Dream variations by langston hughes analysisand “the tropics in new york” by claude mckay both depict a longing for another place. what are the places and what do they represent?

Read these excerpts. lincoln's "gettysburg address." it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. whitman's "o captain! my captain! ". exult, o shores, and ring, o bells! but i, with mournful tread, walk the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and dead. which rhetorical appeal do both excerpts use? logos: the use of logic to convince the audience pathos: the use of emotional appeals to affect the audience’s feelings brevity: writing or speaking that is short, brief, and to the point ethos: the use of authority to persuade the audience to act the right way