Leaning Literary: Tuesday, 3/11/14

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Grammar: Identify rhetorical techniques that strengthen the power of this passage:

"We can hear him read now, just as he did that summer day, when we were busy quilting upstairs, and he lay near the door, his voice rising denunciatory and thrillin—strong and loud as the roar of wind and waves, then soft and soothing as the balmy airs that quivered the morning-glory leaves about his gray beard. His was a strange eloquence at times, and he was undoubtedly a man of genius" ("Johnny Appleseed." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 11 March 2014. Web. 11 March 2014.).
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed

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John Chapman "Johnny Appleseed" (1774-1845)

In 1806 the legendary husbandman began planting and tending apple trees along the Ohio River, navigating with a pair of lashed-together canoes. He was equally interested in preaching biblical messages and, in the course of his travels. Thomas Holme's Journal of a Year's Residences in America (1818), written while Chapman was spreading his evangelical seed, offered this reassuring firsthand observation: He once wrote, "I have traveled more than 4,000 miles about this country, and I have never met with one single insolent Native American." Chapman was quick to preach the Gospel as he traveled, and during his travels he converted many Native Americans, whom he admired. The Native Americans regarded him as someone who had been touched by the Great Spirit, and even hostile tribes left him strictly alone ("Johnny Appleseed." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 11 March 2014. Web. 11 March 2014.).