spare quotes for TLM essay

Question 2

LEAD IN QUOTE

Answer 2

“All men are created equally”. This quote from the United States Declaration of Independence is a very well known reference for the nation’s founding principles of liberty and freedom. However

Question 3

PARA 1 (quote 1)
- topic

Answer 3

• physical abuse
  “The whip ate into him, but like all gluttons who have gorged themselves to their fill it bit and chewed without swallowing … until its mouth was so full food seeped out its corners.”
• personification
• imagery

Question 4

PARA 1 (quote 2&3)
- topic

Answer 4

• physical abuse
  “kick and punch as if bloodhounds were upon them”
• similie

“whinny like horses, bray like mules, grunt like hogs, and howl like wolves”
-zoomorphism
- smiliie

Question 5

PARA 2 (quote 1)
- topic

Answer 5

• mental abuse
  “My mother is an angel without wings, Fallen from grace, the sun has smoked her skin … though black her soul is white”
• metaphor
  -imagery

Question 6

PARA 2 (quote 2)
- topic

Answer 6

• mental abuse
  “I had no name. I was just boy, mule, nigger, slave or whatever anyone else chose to call me”
• diction/ connotations

Question 7

PARA 3 (quote 1&2)
- topic

Answer 7

• negative societal normalisation of the dehumanisation of slaves

“If that comfort can be assigned to bloodhounds then why not slaves?”
- rhetorical question utilise by the author to demonstrate how sanders senior truly believes that AA slaves are beneath himself and other white Americans which only furthers the mental abuse.
“cattle need fattening, not slaves”
-juxtaposition
little intrinsic value resulting in slaves being physically abused as they are considered less than

Question 8

PARA 3 (quote 3)
- topic

Answer 8

• negative societal normalisation of the dehumanisation of slaves
  “ They are, quite literally not like us. They do not feel what we feel. They do not value what we value.
• use of anaphora
• inclusive language in reference to white Americans