How does William Carlos Williams use of line breaks affect how you read the following lines glazed with rain water beside the white chickens quizlet?

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1 . '0" u H William Carlos Williams' use of line breaks affect how you read the following lines? glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. O The line breaks make the white background behind the text less noticeable. O The abrupt line breaks slow the reader down. 0 The line breaks alter the meaning of adjectives like "white." 0 The sudden line breaks change the grammar of the sentence.

14. How did Carl Sandburg use personification in his poetry, and why did he use it so often?

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Read this excerpt from "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar and answer the question that follows:

We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, —
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!

What effect does the poet achieve by repeating the phrase, "We wear the mask" throughout the poem? Complete the sentences to answer the question.

Based on the context of each excerpt from "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop, choose the word that most closely matches the denotation of the bolded word.

I caught a tremendous fish
and held him beside the boat
half out of water, with my hook
/fast/ in a corner of his mouth.

A green line, /frayed/ at the end
where he broke it, two heavier lines,
and a fine black thread
still crimped from the strain and snap
when it broke and he got away.

I admired his /sullen/ face,
the mechanism of his jaw,
and then I saw
that from his lower lip—if you could call it a lip
grim, wet, and weapon like,
hung five old pieces of fish-line,

-A farm wife, Mary pleads with her husband, Warren, to take back a former farmhand who has always disappointed him
-The farmhand, Silas, is very ill, and Mary is convinced that he has returned to the farm to die
-Warren has not seen Silas in his ill state and, still angry over the contract that Silas broke when them in the past, does not want to have Silas on his property
-Mary's compassionate urging eventually convinces him, but when Warren goes to get Silas, he is already dead

-The poem begins when the speaker addresses the city of Chicago with five short lines
-He calls Chicago a series of names—it's a "Hog Butcher" and a "Tool Maker" and a "Stacker of Wheat"
-The Chicago that the speaker personifies is burly and tough
-Then, in longer lines, the speaker describes the life of the city
-A mysterious "they" tells the speaker that Chicago is "wicked," "crooked," and "brutal," and the speaker agrees with all of these judgments
-He has seen prostitutes, killers, and starving families
-The speaker responds to this "they" and pronounces Chicago is "so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."
-It's a vibrant and dynamic city, and the speaker finds beauty in it, despite its dark corners
-The speaker then describes Chicago again in a series of short lines
-Chicago is constantly "building, breaking, rebuilding." This is the life cycle of the city
-Then the speaker describes Chicago even further
-The city almost becomes the very people who inhabit it
-The city feels the pulse and the "the heart of the people."
-In the last line of "Chicago," the speaker repeats the first few phrases of the poem
-He once again calls Chicago "Hog Butcher" and "Tool Maker," and he says that the city is proud to have these names.
-Then it says "Chicago, you rock"

-In this short poem, the speaker begins by claiming that he, too, "sings America" . He goes on to note that he is "the darker brother", referring to his skin color, and then makes reference to the fact that he is sent "to eat in the kitchen / when company comes", as if he were a black slave in a white household. The oppression, however, doesn't stop him from laughing and growing strong.
-Then the speaker envisions a future in which he is no longer sent to the kitchen, in which no one would dare to call him unequal. They (presumably, the white majority) will see him as beautiful and "be ashamed" at their previous prejudice.
-The poem concludes with the speaker asserting, again, that he (and, therefore, his race) is indeed American.

-After abuses of Gilded Age exposed at end of 19th century, reformers wanted new controls
-Lincoln Steffens, a journalist, and Jacob Riis, a photographer, led to urban reforms like turning government control over to boards of commissioners
-Congress passed meat, food, and drug inspection acts responding to articles written by journalist Upton Sinclair
-Oil industry practices led by Ida Tarbell led to stiffer control over big business
-Wanted citizens to have more control over government
-States passed primary election, initiative, referendum, and recall statutes
-States passed laws regulating wages, hours, and factory safety
-Congress established the Federal Trade Commission to investigate unfair trade practices
-Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate telephone and telegraphs
-Federal Reserve System to oversee money and banking
-Sixteenth Amendment was ratified, graduating income tax
-Seventeenth Amendment provided for direct election of senators
-Organized voice for African Americans civil rights, Du bois and others founded the NAACP
-Women have been calling for right to vote since 1848 at Seneca Falls Convention, it wasn't until 1910 suffragists saw their first victory, when Wyoming gave women the right to vote
- 19th amendment ratified in 1920

In my opinion, my favorite Modernist writer is William Carlos Williams. Williams was an American poet who was closely associated with modernism and imagism. The main reason why Williams was my favorite Modernist writer is because of his uniqueness when it comes to poems, and the abnormality of them. In "This is Just to Say," it is a very unusual poem about plums. The speaker is apologizing to his roomate about eating his plum from the icebox. When Williams says, "Forgive me /they were delicious / so sweet / and so cold" I admired the abnormality of it. Also, in "The Red Wheelbarrow," a short poem about how a red wheelbarrow is being depended on, and the wheelbarrow has rain on it and there are chickens by it, it was very unusual. Williams created his own structure in terms of poetry, and I admired that. Also, Williams wrote about items that could be everyday objects, but they are not common everyday objects, which is what attracted me to his work. Since Williams created his own, unique work, that is what made him stand out as a Modernist writer. Williams wanted to be remembered for his distinct poetry, and that is why I treasured William Carlos Williams works the best as a Modernist writer.