READ and answer the questions please :) High in the crow’s-nest of the new White Star liner Titanic, lookout Frederick Fleet peered into a dazzling night. It was calm, clear and bitterly cold. There was no moon, but the cloudless sky blazed with stars. The Atlantic was like polished glass; people later said they had never seen it so smooth.

This was the fifth night of the Titanic’s maiden voyage to New York, and it was already clear that she was not only the largest but also the most glamorous ship in the world. Even the passengers’ dogs were glamorous. John Jacob Astor had brought his Airedale Kitty. Henry Sleeper Harper, of the publishing family, had his prize Pekingese Sun Yat-Sen. Robert W. Daniel, the Philadelphia banker, was bringing back a champion French bulldog just purchased in Britain. Clarence Moore of Washington also had been dog-shopping, but the fifty pairs of English foxhounds he had bought for the Loudoun Hunt weren’t making the trip.

Tone is set by the author’s choice of words, how they describe something. What tone best describes the author’s tone in the first two paragraphs?

A. Happy and Light-hearted
B. Respectful
C. Melodramatic
D. Ominous

What piece of text evidence supports your answer to the question above?

A. She was not only the largest but also the most glamorous ship in the world.

B. It was calm, clear and bitterly cold.

C. There was no moon, but the cloudless sky blazed with stars.

D. The Atlantic was like polished glass; people later said they have never seen it so smooth.

Comparing and contrasting is a form of

Me for the love of god. i've been working on this assignment for 3 days and i don't understand the speeches at all ive read both 4 times over and i don't understand either of them if your right i will give you brainlest (i think that's how you spell it) and 99 pts. for this assignment, you will write an evaluation of either of two historic passages. • patrick henry’s “give me liberty, or give me death! ” speech (1775) • frederick douglass’s address, “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” (1852) 1. what is the speaker’s viewpoint? what is his claim? type your answer here. (score for question 2: of 2 points) 2. what reasons does the speaker provide to support his viewpoint or claim? type your answer here. (score for question 3: of 4 points) 3. how valid are the speaker’s reasons for his claim? use evidence from the text to support your answer. type your answer here. (score for question 4: of 2 points) 4. what evidence does the speaker provide to support his reasons? type your answer here. (score for question 5: of 4 points) 5. is the speaker’s evidence relevant and sufficient? use evidence from the text to support your answer. type your answer here. (score for question 6: of 4 points) 6. does the speaker use fallacious reasoning or logical fallacies? use evidence from the text to support your answers. type your answer here. (score for question 7: of 4 points) 7. what counterclaims or alternate claims does the speaker address, and how does he respond to them? type your answer here. (score for question 8: of 4 points) 8. how effective is the speaker’s response to counterclaims or alternate claims? use evidence from the text to support your answer. type your answer here. (score for question 9: of 4 points) 9. write a one-paragraph evaluation of the speaker’s argument. type your answer here.

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