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  1. What ironies does Harriet Beecher Stowe develop in the first seven paragraphs? Provide three examples and explain their effects.

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    Exploring the Text: - What ironies does Harriet Beecher Stowe develop in the first seven paragraphs? Provide three examples and explain their effects.
  2. What is Stowe’s rhetorical purpose? How does the imagery in paragraphs 47–54 contribute to that purpose?

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    Exploring the Text: - What is Stowe’s rhetorical purpose? How does the imagery in paragraphs 47–54 contribute to that purpose?
  3. Read carefully the conversation that runs from paragraphs 50–76. How would you characterize the attitudes of the speakers? How does the conversation contribute to the chapter as a whole?

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    Exploring the Text: - Read carefully the conversation that runs from paragraphs 50–76. How would you characterize the attitudes of the speakers? How does the conversation contribute to the chapter as a whole?
  4. What is the effect of such diction as “the article enumerated as ‘John, aged thirty’” (par. 50) and “that unfortunate piece of merchandise before enumerate” (par. 80)?

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    Exploring the Text: - What is the effect of such diction as “the article enumerated as ‘John, aged thirty’” (par. 50) and “that unfortunate piece of merchandise before enumerate” (par. 80)?
  5. Stowe writes, “And he took out his pocket-book, and began adding over his accounts,—a process which many gentlemen besides Mr. Haley have found a specific for an uneasy conscience” (par. 88). What does she mean? What is Stowe’s tone in that sentence?

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    Exploring the Text: - Stowe writes, “And he took out his pocket-book, and began adding over his accounts,—a process which many gentlemen besides Mr. Haley have found a specific for an uneasy conscience” (par. 88). What does she mean? What is Stowe’s tone in that sentence?
  6. Read paragraph 144 carefully. What is the effect of Stowe’s direct address to the reader? How does it make you feel?

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    Exploring the Text: - Read paragraph 144 carefully. What is the effect of Stowe’s direct address to the reader? How does it make you feel?
  7. How would you describe Stowe’s tone in paragraph 154? How does it serve her rhetorical purpose?

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    Exploring the Text: - How would you describe Stowe’s tone in paragraph 154? How does it serve her rhetorical purpose?
  8. What is the rhetorical shift that Stowe develops between paragraphs 164 and 165? From that point on, how does she use rhetorical strategies to conclude the episode?

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    Exploring the Text: - What is the rhetorical shift that Stowe develops between paragraphs 164 and 165? From that point on, how does she use rhetorical strategies to conclude the episode?