High school english 4
[honors seg 1, 01 mc]

"oh, east is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet,

till earth and sky stand presently at god's great judgment seat;

but there is neither east nor west, border, nor breed, nor birth,

when two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth! "

in this excerpt from rudyard kipling’s “the ballad of east and west” the poet uses several poetic devices. in 3-5 sentences, identify and describe one poetic device from the text, and explain how the poet uses the device to support his view of the british empire. include evidence from the poem to support your answer.

Read the passage below and answer the question. marcus had a reputation for being craven. no one had ever seen him do a single brave thing. using context clues, how would you define the word craven in the passage? intense courageous cowardly thoughtful

What does the birdcage symbolize in trifles ?

Read the passage from the opinion of the court in dred scott v. sandford, written by justice taney. the question then arises, whether the provisions of the constitution, in relation to the personal rights and privileges to which the citizen of a state should be entitled, embraced the negro african race, at that time in this country, or who might afterwards be imported, who had then or should afterwards be made free in any state; and to put it in the power of a single state to make him a citizen of the united states, and endue him with the full rights of citizenship in every other state without their consent? does the constitution of the united states act upon him whenever he shall be made free under the laws of a state, and raised there to the rank of a citizen, and immediately clothe him with all the privileges of a citizen in every other state, and in its own courts? the court thinks the affirmative of these propositions cannot be maintained. and if it cannot, the plaintiff in error could not be a citizen of the state of missouri, within the meaning of the constitution of the united states, and, consequently, was not entitled to sue in its courts. what claim does justice taney make in this passage? that sanford has the right to enslave scott that scott has the right to be emancipated that scott is not a citizen of missouri that sanford cannot sue because he is not a citizen