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read this paper below:…
read this paper below:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Interesting_Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Olaudah_Equiano,_or_Gustavus_Vassa,_the_African/Chapter_2
1. Below, see an excerpt from the end of chapter 2 of Olaudah Equiano’s autobiography:
O, ye nominal Christians! might not an African ask you, learned you this from your God? who says unto you, Do unto all men as you would men should do unto you. Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrifices to your avarice? Are the dearest friends and relations, now rendered more dear by their separation from their kindred, still to be parted from each other, and thus prevented from cheering the gloom of slavery with the small comfort of being together, and mingling their suffering and sorrows? Why are parents to lose their children, brothers their sisters, or husbands their wives? Surely this is a new refinement in cruelty, which, while it has no advantage to atone for it, thus aggravates distress, and adds fresh horrors even to the wretchedness of slavery.
– What is Equiano arguing in this passage about slavery and religion? Who is he calling out, and why?
read these two poems below:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47706/to-the-right-honorable-william-earl-of-dartmouth
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley
2. Phillis Wheatley uses rhyming couplets in her poem, “To The Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth,” and “couplet” is one of your key terms for the week. How do Wheatley’s rhyming couplets contribute to the tone, flow, or overall feeling of her poem? (If you’re feeling stuck, consider: if she wrote this poem in free verse, or as a letter, would it have the same effect? Why or why not?)
3. In “To The Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth”, Phillis Wheatley is writing about a fictional character. true or false?
4. In her speech to the assembled troops at Tilbury, Elizabeth I splits herself into two “bodies” – what are these bodies she refers to?
5. What was Aemelia Lanyer’s primary goal in writing “To the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty”?
Group of answer choices:
– To obtain financial support for her writing
– To criticize those who don’t like her writing
– To tell Anne of Denmark’s story
– To make others feel sorry for her situation
6. Katherine Philips ends her poem “A Married State” with advice – what is her advice?
Group of answer choices
– Turn away from love and avoid marriage
– Marry a man who treats you well
– Consider marriage if your partner is financially sound
