● Exercise 1 ●

1. It was written, this white man’s literature of England, while somebody else did the other things that have to be done. And that was the literature absorbed by the slave, Phillis Wheatley.—June Jordan

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   Exercise 1: Appositives: Each of the following is a direct quotation from a selection in this chapter. Identify the appositive in each and the word or phrase it details. Note that at least one of the examples contains a double appositive. - It was written, this white man’s literature of England, while somebody else did the other things that have to be done. And that was the literature absorbed by the slave, Phillis Wheatley.—June Jordan
2. If she, this genius teenager, should, instead of writing verse to comfort a white man upon the death of his wife, or a white woman upon the death of her husband, or verse commemorating weirdly fabled white characters bereft of children diabolically dispersed; if she, instead composed a poetry to speak her pain, to say her grief, to find her parents, or to stir her people into insurrection, what would we now know about God’s darling girl, that Phillis?—June Jordan

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   Exercise 1: Appositives: Each of the following is a direct quotation from a selection in this chapter. Identify the appositive in each and the word or phrase it details. Note that at least one of the examples contains a double appositive. - If she, this genius teenager, should, instead of writing verse to comfort a white man upon the death of his wife, or a white woman upon the death of her husband, or verse commemorating weirdly fabled white characters bereft of children diabolically dispersed; if she, instead composed a poetry to speak her pain, to say her grief, to find her parents, or to stir her people into insurrection, what would we now know about God’s darling girl, that Phillis?—June Jordan
3. Addison Gayle, a major black aesthetic critic, wrote in The Way of the World (1975) that Wheatley was the first black writer “to accept the images and symbols of degradation passed down from the South’s most intellectual lights and the first to speak from a sensibility finely tuned by close approximation to their oppressors.”—Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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   Exercise 1: Appositives: Each of the following is a direct quotation from a selection in this chapter. Identify the appositive in each and the word or phrase it details. Note that at least one of the examples contains a double appositive. - Addison Gayle, a major black aesthetic critic, wrote in The Way of the World (1975) that Wheatley was the first black writer “to accept the images and symbols of degradation passed down from the South’s most intellectual lights and the first to speak from a sensibility finely tuned by close approximation to their oppressors.”—Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4. ’Twas not long since I left my native shoreThe land of errors, and Egyptian gloom.—Phillis Wheatley

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   Exercise 1: Appositives: Each of the following is a direct quotation from a selection in this chapter. Identify the appositive in each and the word or phrase it details. Note that at least one of the examples contains a double appositive. - ’Twas not long since I left my native shoreThe land of errors, and Egyptian gloom.—Phillis Wheatley
5. Amiri Baraka, father of the Black Arts movement, in his seminal collection of essays entitled Home (1966), says that Wheatley’s “pleasant imitations of 18th century English poetry are far, and finally, ludicrous departures from the huge black voices that splintered southern nights with their hollers, chants, arwhoolies, and ballits.”—Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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   Exercise 1: Appositives: Each of the following is a direct quotation from a selection in this chapter. Identify the appositive in each and the word or phrase it details. Note that at least one of the examples contains a double appositive. - Amiri Baraka, father of the Black Arts movement, in his seminal collection of essays entitled Home (1966), says that Wheatley’s “pleasant imitations of 18th century English poetry are far, and finally, ludicrous departures from the huge black voices that splintered southern nights with their hollers, chants, arwhoolies, and ballits.”—Henry Louis Gates Jr.
6. [B]ut I must now complain of it, as unjust and unequal, That my Betrayer and Undoer, the first Cause of all my faults and Miscarriages (if they must be deemed such) should be advanced to Honour and Power in the Government, that punishes my Misfortunes with Stripes and Infamy.— Benjamin Franklin

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   Exercise 1: Appositives: Each of the following is a direct quotation from a selection in this chapter. Identify the appositive in each and the word or phrase it details. Note that at least one of the examples contains a double appositive. - [B]ut I must now complain of it, as unjust and unequal, That my Betrayer and Undoer, the first Cause of all my faults and Miscarriages (if they must be deemed such) should be advanced to Honour and Power in the Government, that punishes my Misfortunes with Stripes and Infamy.— Benjamin Franklin
7. Can a Sikh student wear the kirpan, the symbolic knife required of all initiated Sikhs, to school, or a Sikh worker wear a turban on a hard-hat job, in apparent violation of safety regulations?—Diane L. Eck

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   Exercise 1: Appositives: Each of the following is a direct quotation from a selection in this chapter. Identify the appositive in each and the word or phrase it details. Note that at least one of the examples contains a double appositive. - Can a Sikh student wear the kirpan, the symbolic knife required of all initiated Sikhs, to school, or a Sikh worker wear a turban on a hard-hat job, in apparent violation of safety regulations?—Diane L. Eck
8. If we meet an equal, a sensible friend, we will reward him with the hand of amity, and through life we will be assiduous to promote his happiness.—Judith Sargent Murray

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   Exercise 1: Appositives: Each of the following is a direct quotation from a selection in this chapter. Identify the appositive in each and the word or phrase it details. Note that at least one of the examples contains a double appositive. - If we meet an equal, a sensible friend, we will reward him with the hand of amity, and through life we will be assiduous to promote his happiness.—Judith Sargent Murray
9. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions...—Thomas Jefferson

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   Exercise 1: Appositives: Each of the following is a direct quotation from a selection in this chapter. Identify the appositive in each and the word or phrase it details. Note that at least one of the examples contains a double appositive. - We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions...—Thomas Jefferson