I NEED IT ASAP-Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass.
What effect does Douglass's use of the adjectives
"blighting and dehumanizing" have on the reader?
My new mistress proved to be all she appeared when I first
met her at the door,--a woman of the kindest heart and
finest feelings. She had never had a slave under her
control previously to myself, and prior to her marriage she
had been dependent upon her own industry for a living.
She was by trade a weaver, and by constant application to
her business, she had been in a good degree preserved
from the blighting and dehumanizing effects of slavery. I
was utterly astonished at her goodness.
O They create an image of the quality of the mistress's
weaving
O They emphasize the damage slavery causes to a
slaveholder's character.
O They describe the harsh treatment that Douglass
received from his mistress.
O They illustrate the mistress's kindness toward
Douglass.

Follow the directions (and example) given to create your own sonnet. william shakespeare's sonnet 130 my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, coral is far more red, than her lips red, if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun: if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head: i have seen roses damasked, red and white, but no such roses see i in her cheeks, and in some perfumes is there more delight, than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. i love to hear her speak, yet well i know, that music hath a far more pleasing sound: i grant i never saw a goddess go, my mistress when she walks treads on the ground. and yet by heaven i think my love as rare, as any she belied with false compare. instructions: write fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. use a sonnet rhyme scheme. use the first eight lines to set up your idea (the octave). use the last six lines to conclude your idea (sestet). (variety may be added by including a substitute foot from time to time such as the two anapests in line 3 above.) work in small groups giving each other feedback. reading the sonnet aloud allows you to hear the words and rhythms of the lines. generate questions that will clarify the use of words and forms. for example: was the idea of the sonnet presented in the first eight lines? how was sound used to enhance the meaning of the sonnet?