Mark the anapests in the following line by placing the accent mark (") over stressed syllables and the breve () over
unstressed syllables.

question:

it was many and many a year ago

U  U      “        U      “       U   “    U

It was many and many a year ago

Explanation:

Always remember that vowels in a word are stressed or unstressed syllables. Stressed syllables are the ones which we stress upon while speaking the word. Unstressed syllables are the ones we do not put stress on. These "stressed and unstressed syllables" produce a meter in the poem. In the given lines,

Stressed syllables are: many, many, year

Unstressed syllables are: It, was, and, a, ago

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.

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.