Unit 4 Review Flashcards

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in the underlined sentence from Section 13 of Walden, Thoreau is personifying

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the Pond

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what is the meaning of the aphorism below from Section 15 of Thoreau’s writings on Civil Disobedience?
Section 15: Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses

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government tries to get compliance by forcing the body, not by dealing with the moral sense of a man

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which of the following is not an aphorism

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  • sec 5: why has every man a conscience, then
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Thoreau’s purpose, as expressed in the underlined passage from Section 8 of Civil Disobedience, is

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to convince men not to conform to an unjust government or to wait for the majority, but to resist

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in section 9 of his writings on Civil Disobedience, Thoreau tries to convince Abolitionists that

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  • they should withdraw their support of the government, not waiting to be a majority of one
  • when you are right and have God on your side, you don’t need a majority to try to change things
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which is not an example of traditional poetic form

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free verse

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