Crafting periodic and balanced sentences
Subject
Humanities
Question Description
Directions: There are three parts to this assignment. Read each section carefully and follow the instructions for each part.
Part 1 – Use the following words to write 5 original sentences that follow a periodic sentence structure:
Billow
Compliance
Consecrate
Desolate
Enterprising
Part 2 – Use the following words to write 5 original sentences that follow a balanced sentence structure:
Gossamer
Guile
Guise
Interminable
Subtleties
Your sentences must do the following:
Contain a context clue to demonstrate your full understanding of the word’s meaning
Follow the sentence pattern as indicated
Be free of comma splices, subject-verb agreement errors, and other serious grammatical errors
Be free of spelling and punctuation errors
Part 3 – Read the historical context below and answer the questions that follow to analyze Sojourner Truth’s diction and syntax.
Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. She was born into slavery in New York but escaped with her infant daughter in 1826. She delivered the speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in 1851.
How would the following sentiment be different if Truth used the word “should” instead of “better”?
“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.”