Read the following excerpt from The Age of Innocence to determine mood. "To the general relief, the Countess Olenska was not present in her grandmother's drawing-room during the visit of the
betrothed couple. Mrs. Mingott said she had gone out; which, on a day of such glaring sunlight, and at the "shopping
hour," seemed in itself an indelicate thing for a compromised woman to do. But at any rate it spared them the
embarrassment of her presence, and the faint shadow that her unhappy past might seem to shed on their radiant future.
The visit went off successfully, as was to have been expected. Old Mrs. Mingott was delighted with the engagement,
which, being long foreseen by watchful relatives, had been carefully passed upon in family council; and the engagement
ring, a large thick sapphire set in invisible claws, met with her unqualified admiration."
Which word best describes the mood of this paragraph?
amiable
embarrassing
gloomy
quarrelsome

the answer is:  

he is voicing feelings shared by all humans regardless of race.

in paul laurence dunbar's poem "we wear the mask," he replicates the words mask and we to emphasize how people in general -not just black americans- hide their true feelings. he suggests the masks cover people's faces and eyes, which are the main parts that display their emotions. he also thinks people's pain conceal behind those masks, so that they cannot see reality and nobody is able to see one another's sorrow.

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)

about what?

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