1. Analyze Whitman uses parallelism, the repetition of a grammatical structure, in lines 1-4. Describe what is
parallel in these lines. What impression of the astronomer's lecture does the parallelism create?

Answers with Explanations:

1. Describe what is parallel in these lines?

Lines 1-4 are parallel because the lines started with the subordinate conjunction "when." This makes the lines "subordinate clauses." The use of "when" makes it clear that the event is happening during that time.

Aside from this, the lines also used past tense for every line (learned, ranged, shown and heard).

Explanation: The question is related to the poem entitled, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer," written by Walt Whitman in 1865.

2. What impressions of the astronomer's lecture does the parallelism create?

Parallelism creates the impression that the lecture of the astronomer is a serious matter because it mentioned about figures, columns, charts and diagrams. It also taught the audience to use their mathematical skills by adding and dividing. This proves the lecture as something similar to that of learning a skill.

3 box to the first, 2 box to the 4th, the 4th to the 3rd

explanation:

the rhetorical devices that he used in "common sense" are syntax for his sentence structure and pathos for his emotion against the british unfairly treating the "americans" and logos of what documents that what happened to the pilgrims when they had the mayflower compact and how that the british were wanting to have one religion but the compact said for any religion to be accepted.