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Hurston and the Rhetoric of Identity — Homework
Reread the assigned Hurston excerpt before answering.
- 1.How does the tone of Hurston's opening line differ from the tone of Douglass's Narrative?
- 2.Explain the bag metaphor in your own words.
- 3.Name the two earlier writers studied this year whose rhetorical strategies this week's reading compares Hurston against.
- 4.Compare Hurston's and Jacobs's differing strategies for addressing a reader who may not share their experience.
- 5.In six or more sentences, explain why Hurston's more confident, self-defining rhetorical approach might have been possible in 1928 in a way it was not for Douglass in 1845.
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