Question 1 (2 points) Saved
1. Reread this quotation from the passage: “…each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh yes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.”

How does the hyperbole toward those who choose to settle in New York City affect tone of the essay?

Question 1 options:

It expresses an admiring tone.

It expresses an indignant tone.

It creates a scornful tone.

It creates a comforting tone.

Question 2 (2 points)
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2. Which quotation from the essay helps to create a hopeful tone in "Here is New York"?

Question 2 options:

“It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements."

“. . . a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart. . ."

“Irving Berlin’s journey from...the lower East Side...was like going three times around the world.

“They...never see the extravagant plantings of Rockefeller Center—the daffodils and grape hyacinths and birches and the flags trimmed to the wind on a fine morning in spring."

Question 3 (2 points)
3. Read this sentence: “Second, there is the New York of the commuter—the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night.”

How does the figure of speech “devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night” affect the passage?

Question 3 options:

It compares the number of New York commuters to an insect invasion.

It describes the way commuters use and abuse what the city has to offer.

It describes that habits of an insect population that plagues New York.

What to the slave is the fourth of july? by frederick douglass fellow-citizens—pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am i called upon to speak here to-day? what have i, or those i represent, to do with your national independence? are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that declaration of independence, extended to us? and am i, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits, and express devout gratitude for the blessings, resulting from your independence to us? but, such is not the state of the case. i say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. i am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. the blessings in which you this day rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. the rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. the sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. this fourth of july is yours, not mine. you may rejoice, i must mourn. to drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day? fellow-citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, i hear the mournful wail of millions, whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are to-day rendered more intolerable by the jubilant shouts that reach them. if i do forget, if i do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, "may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth! " to forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme, would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before god and the world. my subject, then, fellow-citizens, is american slavery. i shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave's point of view. standing there, identified with the american bondman, making his wrongs mine, i do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this fourth of july. whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. what is one of the lessons douglass impresses on his listeners? a) the nation should not rejoice until everyone has freedom. b) he must speak on the fourth of july in order to bring change. c) for him to join the celebration would be treason. d) he can see the perspective of slaves and citizens with equal clarity.

Choose one group member who participated in your discussion. in 100-150 words, evaluate the effectiveness of their main argument and supporting evidence. using your notes, explain whether or not their claims were developed well, what evidence they used to support their claim, and how well they responded to the prompt. is there anything they could have done to be more effective? if so, what was it?

When is the best time to evaluate options? a. during the first step of decision-making b. as you identify options c. after you've identified many options