The process by which the Supreme Court has expanded specific parts of the Bill of Rights to protect citizens against state actions is called

What were Jim Crow laws?

In “DayStar,” the speaker mentions “diapers steaming / on the line, / [and] A doll slumped behind the door” (lines 2-4). Such details in the poem employ what kind of imagery?

The philosophical view articulated in the Declaration of Independence was most heavily influenced by the work of liberal theorist

Which amendment to the Constitution guarantees voting rights for African American men?

The speaker of Blake’s “The Lamb” refers to himself as “a little child,” which suggests that Blake has created a fictitious character who is speaking the poem, called

The equal protection clause

Which line from Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Cory” helps the reader understand the poverty of the speaker?

Poets often change the grammatical structure of sentences, such as John Donne’s final lines of “The Flea”: “Just so much honour, when thou yield’st to me, / Will waste.” Such arrangement of words and phrases is referred to as

To what is Longfellow comparing the “fond mother” (line 1)?