Match the excerpt of Lowell's "For the Union Dead" with the appropriate poetic device. imagery
1. "a savage servility/ slides by on grease"
2. "for the dark downward and vegetating kingdom"
alliteration
simile
3. "The monument sticks like a fishbone"
"William James could almost hear the bronze Negroes
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breathe."
personification

Which type of characterization is used in the excerpt to reveal claire’s character traits? indirect, direct, both or neither

Read this excerpt from “what i hope to leave behind.” for a number of years it took so much vitality to keep the home going, and that home represented so many different kinds of activities, that none of us had any urge to go outside of this sphere. if “what i hope to leave behind” was the subject of a class discussion, why might paraphrasing this sentence be ? you could analyze the key themes while also staying true to the original language. you could summarize the key ideas, which would shorten the length of the excerpt. you could use your own ideas and concepts, which would add important information. you could rephrase it in your own words, which might clarify the meaning of the excerpt.

Write four sentences that incorporate ‘imagery’ (all of your senses) to describe a place that you like to visit.