Question:

Answer: The phrase and the pause enable Roosevelt to emphasize the emotional impact of this tragic loss of life.

Question: Part A

What is one of Roosevelt’s purposes for delivering this speech?

Answer: to inform the American people of Japan’s attack on the US and other places in the Pacific

Question: Part B

Which statement best explains how Roosevelt uses rhetoric to advance the purpose identified in Part A?

Answer: He uses repetition, employing the phrase “last night” several times, to stress the number of coordinated attacks carried out by the Japanese.

Question:

Answer: Wooden molds were made from the plaster sections of the statue’s surface.

Full-scale plaster sections were made of the statue.

Question: How does personification affect the first stanza’s meaning?

Answer: It creates the impression that the world of nature is alive with interactions.

Question: How does the metaphor in line 5 affect the poem’s meaning?

Answer: It helps readers to better imagine the motionlessness of the moon in contrast to the movement of the dune grass.

Question: How does the personification of winter affect the overall mood of this poem?

Answer: It creates a dark and foreboding mood through its description of winter’s acts.

Question: Which statement best explains how the imagery in Stanza 4 affects the tone of the poem?

Answer: It creates a sense of urgency and worry and sets a concerned tone.

Question: How does the reference to a “cavalry skirmish” affect the poem?

Answer: By indicating that the son died in a battle fought by soldiers on horseback, the language evokes a past when the violence of war was close-up and personal.

Question: How does the language in Stanza 9 evoke a sense of the time in which the poem is set?

Grieve not so, dear mother, (the just-grown daughter speaks

through her sobs,

The little sisters huddle around speechless and dismay’d,)

See, dearest mother, the letter says Pete will soon be better.

Answer: It uses archaic phrasing such as Grieve not so, indicating the poem is set long ago.