Annotation of Godey's Lady's Book

Annotation of “Godey’s Lady’s Book”

42.) In the lament expressed about Ireland and its people in lines 28-45, the narrator utilizes all of the following stylistic devices except?

The answer E, litote is the best choice since the narrator uses all of the following in the story: apostrophe, paradox, anaphora, and personification. Lines 40-41, “Oh, Ireland, fair Ireland,” is the apostrophe. Lines 36-37, “No wonder the Irishman loves his country, crushed, trampled upon as she is,” is a paradox since the Irish love their country but yet here they are leaving it to go to America. Lines 32-36, “where nature must smile…met with elsewhere,” is an anaphora because it has repetitions of an opening clause. Lines 29-37, “They are taxed…upon as she is,” has personification because its giving human qualities to abstract nonhuman objects/ideas like their home country. Therefore, a litote which is an understatement is the only answer left.

43.) According to this passage, the Irish can best be described as?

The answer D, oppressed people who regret having to leave the land that they love best describes the Irish people because through lines 25-37 “How, often when speaking…crushed, trampled upon as she is,” it discusses how much the Irish loves their country and they don’t want to leave it for America but they have no choice.

44.) Lines 1-37 utilize all of the following types of sentence except?

The answer B, imperative is the only choice because through lines 1-37, there is a compound-complex, rhetorical question, loose, and periodic. Lines 8-11, “We had not…his abode there,” is the compound-complex. Lines 26-27, “Why don’t they emigrate,” is the rhetorical question. Lines 29-36, “They are taxed…to be met with elsewhere,” is the loose sentence. Lines 21-25, “Willing to labor…come to America,” is the periodic sentence and so the only choice left is imperative since there is no commanding or a directive sentence in the lines 1-37.

45.) Initially the Neville family can...