Diction and Syntax in Argumentative Texts Answers

Read the excerpt from "We Are All Bound Up Together” by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul. You tried that in the case of the negro. You pressed him down for two centuries; and in so doing you crippled the moral strength and paralyzed the spiritual energies of the white men of the country. When the hands of the black were fettered, white men were deprived of the liberty of speech and the freedom of the press. Society cannot afford to neglect the enlightenment of any class of its members.

Read the excerpt from "We Are All Bound Up Together” by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.I took my children in my arms, and went out to seek my living. While I was gone; a neighbor to whom I had once lent five dollars, went before a magistrate and swore that he believed I was a non resident, and laid an attachment on my very bed. And I went back to Ohio with my orphan children in my arms, without a single feather bed in this wide world, that was not in the custody of the law. I say, then, that justice is not fulfilled so long as woman is unequal before the law.

Read the excerpt from "We Are All Bound Up Together” by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.

Read the excerpt from "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry.Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.

What is diction?

Read the excerpt from "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry.Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other.

Read the excerpt from "We Are All Bound Up Together” by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.In advocating the cause of the colored man, since the Dred Scott decision, I have sometimes said I thought the nation had touched bottom. But let me tell you there is a depth of infamy lower than that. It is when the nation, standing upon the threshold of a great peril, reached out its hands to a feebler race, and asked that race to help it, and when the peril was over, said, You are good enough for soldiers, but not good enough for citizens.

Which sentence includes diction that creates a positive feeling?

Read the excerpt from "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry.I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House.

Read the excerpt from "We Are All Bound Up Together” by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.(1) I took my children in my arms, and went out to seek my living. (2) While I was gone; a neighbor to whom I had once lent five dollars, went before a magistrate and swore that he believed I was a non resident, and laid an attachment on my very bed. (3) And I went back to Ohio with my orphan children in my arms, without a single feather bed in this wide world, that was not in the custody of the law. (4) I say, then, that justice is not fulfilled so long as woman is unequal before the law.

Read the excerpt from "We Are All Bound Up Together” by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.A great sorrow had fallen upon my life. My husband had died suddenly, leaving me a widow, with four children, one my own, and the others stepchildren. I tried to keep my children together. But my husband died in debt; and before he had been in his grave three months, the administrator had swept the very milk crocks and wash tubs from my hands. I was a farmer's wife and made butter for the Columbus market; but what could I do, when they had swept all away?

Read the excerpt from "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry.Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort.

Read the excerpt from "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry.Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?

What is syntax?