Complete the following using the protest song you chose to analyze. Provide the Song Facts Song title: Performed by: Describe the historical context in three to five sentences. Imagine that you are creating a music video for the song. Include two images that would complement or support the historical context of the song. Copy and paste the lyrics. (Be sure to edit or alter any words that are not school appropriate.) Label and Analyze the Lyrics Complete the following chart based on your selected song. Identify two figures of speech and two sound devices to include in the chart. Label What type of sound device or figure of speech is used? Actual Lines from the Song Paste the line or lines containing each example in the space provided. Effect How does the example create an image, create a particular mood, or make listeners feel or think something? Figure of Speech #1

In this excerpt from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift, which important issue does the writer deal with using a satirical tone? some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. but i am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. and as to the young labourers, they are now in almost as hopeful a condition. they cannot get work, and consequently pine away from want of nourishment, to a degree, that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labour, they have not strength to perform it, and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to come. a. old, sickly people cannot be hired as laborers because they don't have the physical stamina required for the job. b. old, sickly people and young laborers are useless to the nation because they cannot be productive citizens. c. the economy of the nation is burdened by the poor, the old, and the sickly who survive on charity and handouts. d. the living conditions of the poor and their lack of employment opportunities are serious concerns for the nation. reset next