Read this description of Abraham Lincoln.I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln’s dark brown face, with the deep-cut lines, the eyes, always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. . . . None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect, expression of this man’s face.
Read this passage.I can guarantee that dancing with me will be a memorable experience. I will likely step on your toes, sway to the wrong beat, and move in the wrong direction. You may regret dancing with me, but you will definitely never forget it.
Read this excerpt from the secondary source “Abraham Lincoln’s Boyhood Home at Knob Creek.”Abraham recalled in later years numerous memories of his childhood [in Kentucky]; a stone house he had passed while taking corn to Hodgen’s Mill; a certain big tree that had attracted his boyish fancy; the old homestead; the clear stream where he fished, and the surrounding hills where he picked berries were all impressed on his mind.
Read this excerpt from “1859 Autobiographical Statement for the Chester County Times.”Then came the Black-Hawk war; and I was elected a Captain of Volunteers—a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since. I went the campaign, was elated, ran for the Legislature the same year (1832) and was beaten—the only time I have been beaten by the people. The next, and three succeeding biennial elections, I was elected to the Legislature.
Read this excerpt from a secondary source about Abraham Lincoln.Lincoln joined a volunteer company in the Black Hawk War in 1832. He served only three months in the war, and he never saw battle. Even so, Lincoln considered this event to be one of the greatest successes of his life. The men in his company elected him captain, and Lincoln was very proud of, yet humbled by, their confidence in him.
Which sentence uses hyperbole?
Read these excerpts.My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks, some of whom now reside in Adams, and others in Macon counties, Illinois.–“1859 Autobiographical Statement for the Chester County Times”He [Lincoln] could remember how he stayed by his mother’s side and watched her face while listening to her read the Bible.–“Abraham Lincoln’s Boyhood Home at Knob Creek”
Read this description of Abraham Lincoln.In her later life [Lincoln’s] step-mother spoke of him always with the tenderest feeling. On one occasion she said: “He never gave me a cross word or look, and never refused, in fact or appearance, to do anything I requested of him.”
Read this description of Abraham Lincoln.His laugh stood by itself. The neigh of a wild horse on his native prairie is not more distinguished and hearty.
Read this excerpt from “1859 Autobiographical Statement for the Chester County Times .”If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing, on an average, one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes—no other marks or brands recollected.
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