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Read the passage from Gulliver's Travels.There was a most ingenious architect, who had contrived a new method for building houses, by beginning at the roof, and working downward to the foundation.

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In his travels, Gulliver is fooled by a silly architect he meets.
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When he meets a ridiculous architect, Gulliver is oddly impressed.
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Gulliver encounters an architect who builds houses from the top down.
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Gulliver meets an architect who has a crazy way of building houses.
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Read the two passages from Of the Wisdom of the Ancients.Passage 1:The fable relates to the cradle and infancy of nature, and pierces deep. This Love I understand to be the appetite or instinct of primal matter; or to speak more plainly, the natural motion of the atom; which is indeed the original and unique force that constitutes and fashions all things out of matter.Passage 2:Let us now consider his attributes. He is described with great elegance as a little child, and a child for ever; for things compounded are larger and are affected by age; whereas the primary seeds of things, or atoms, are minute and remain in perpetual infancy.

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Passage 1 explains his central idea, while passage 2 supports it.
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Passage 1 provides a counter argument, while passage 2 disproves it.
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Passage 1 supports the central idea, while passage 2 explains what the central idea is.
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Passage 1 lists a supporting example, while passage 2 provides a counter argument.
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Read the passage from Of the Wisdom of the Ancients.Now the philosophy of the Greeks, which in investigating the material principles of things is careful and acute, in inquiring the principles of motion, wherein lies all vigour of operation, is negligent and languid; and on the point now in question seems to be altogether blind and babbling; for that opinion of the Peripatetics which refers the original impulse of matter to privation, is little more than words—a name for the thing rather than a description of it.

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the philosophy of the Greeks, which in investigating the material principles of things is careful and acute
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in inquiring the principles of motion, wherein lies all vigour of operation, is negligent and languid
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refers the original impulse of matter to privation
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a name for the thing rather than a description of it
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To determine the central idea of An Essay on Man, what should the reader do first?

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paraphrase the author’s argument
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locate key details
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decide the author’s message
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identify the topic
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Some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed.
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Thus the squire will learn to be a good landlord, and grow popular among his tenants, the mother will have eight shillings neat profit, and be fit for work till she produces another child.
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I have reckoned upon a medium, that a child just born will weigh 12 pounds, and in a solar year, if tolerably nursed, encreaseth to 28 pounds.
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It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children.
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etymologiesdefinitionsomissionsquotations

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etymologies
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definitions
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omissions
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quotations
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Read the excerpt from Thoughts and Sentiments.I saw him take a gun, a piece of cloth, and some lead for me, and then he told me that he must now leave me there, and went off. This made me cry bitterly, but I was soon conducted to a prison, for three days, where I heard the groans and cries of many, and saw some of my fellow-captives. But when a vessel arrived to conduct us away to the ship, it was a most horrible scene; there was nothing to be heard but rattling of chains, smacking of whips, and the groans and cries of our fellow-men.

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to prove that slavery still happens
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to show that slavery is harmful to society
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to reveal the horrors of enslavement
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to justify the existence of slavery
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Read the passage from "An Essay on Man.”Self-love and reason to one end aspire,Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire;

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Pope uses antithesis and a heroic couplet to show a similarity between self-love and reason.
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Pope uses repetition to create a rhythm that draws attention to the relationship between self-love and reason.
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Pope contrasts self-love with reason to emphasize how Enlightenment thinkers value logic.
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Pope contrasts Enlightenment views on pain and pleasure to explain how self-love is superior to logic.

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