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The figure shows a nation’s production possibilities frontier. In the figure, point A shows

What is a  literary catalog and what is being cataloged in the Declaration of Independence?

Essay Question: Explain how Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography reveals him to be a man of the Enlightenment.   To answer this prompt, you will need to indicate an understanding of the Enlightenment and of the Autobiography.   Use specific evidence from the text to support your claims.    A strong answer will begin with a thesis statement supported with  4-5 specific ways.  All evidence will be taken from the Autobiography, “A Way to Wealth,” and class handouts. No credit will be given for knowledge outside of class material. Use paragraph form in answering this discussion question.

Identify the author and title to which the following selection belongs.  ALSO, in 2-3 sentences explain the meaning and significance of the selection to the whole work: Then, coming out, beheld a space The flame consume my dwelling place. And when I could no longer look, I blest His name that gave and took, That laid my goods now in the dust. Yea, so it was, and so ’twas just.  It was His own, it was not mine, Far be it that I should repine.

In about 4-5 sentences Name the author and title of the following quote.  Set the quote in its historical background  Explain the meaning and the significance of the quote.   “These are the times that try men’s souls.  The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.  Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.  What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”

Who is the first published poet in America?

Explain what happened with Anne Bradstreet’s book of poetry and how she felt about the situation.  

Payments that have not be paid is called arrears or arrearages.

Name the author of the following poem.  Also name and explain  4 characteristics of this author’s poetry  that can be found in the poem. Because I could not stop for Death– He kindly stopped for me– The Carriage held but just Ourselves– And Immortality. We slowly drove–He knew no haste And I had put away  My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility–   We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess–in the Ring– we passed the Fields of Gazing Grain– We passed the Setting Sun–  

Identify the author of the passage, the title of the work, and three to four sentences of analysis explaining what is happening  the irony used in this passage    “Come,” I said with decision, “we will go back; your health is precious. . . . We will go back; you will be ill and I cannot be responsible.  Besides, there is Luchresi—–.” “Enough,” he said; the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me.  I shall not die of a cough.” “True—True,” I replied.