Read the following excerpt from "after the winter” by claude mckay.

and we will seek the quiet hill
where towers the cotton tree,
and leaps the laughing crystal rill,
and works the droning bee.
and we will build a cottage there
beside an open glade,
with black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near,
and ferns that never fade.

what effect does the repetition of the word "and” have on this stanza?

it emphasizes that a quiet hill is much more desirable than a droning bee.
it highlights the poet’s desire to seek a quiet hill with a cotton tree.
it stresses the images of the crystal rill, the droning bee, and the cottage, but not the ferns.
it connects and gives equal importance to all of the ideas and images in the stanza.

It's D!

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)