Answer:
The article is using pathos.
Explanation:
Pathos is a rhetorical resource that is used in speeches or texts that seek to convince the reader through very emotional and sentimental concepts and ideas, that is, pathos appeals to sentimentality, allowing readers and listeners to feel touched by what this being debatable and are directed to what the text is referring to. In the case of the question above, we are presented with a text that describes pain and anguish as a way to persuade its readers. Pain and anguish are feelings, which means that the author is wearing pathos.
Answer:
We should not be so desperate to achieve our aims that we follow the wrong route.
Explanation:
Ernie is a character in the story who wanted to be a successful reporter. In his quest to write the big stories, he flouted the requirement of transparency and honesty in reporting. When John Vollmer a soldier drowned in the river, Ernie disguised himself to obtain information about him from his parents. He was not transparent in his investigation.
A guilty conscience would later make him to stealthily return the photo he collected from the parents of the deceased and run away. His desperation made him not to follow the right guidelines in reporting and the consequence of that was a bad conscience.
The answer is the first choice. Both verb tenses are in the past tense and agree with each other.
Doodle (the baby) is treated in ironic way in many situations in the play "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst. For example, when he is born his mother ask for the building of a coffin for him. This is rare because no mother expects his baby dies. Since the baby does not die, the coffin is stored. Another example of irnony is that "Brother" expects Doodle to learn how to walk and talk before he could be able to do it. Brother thinks this is a way to help his little brother but in the process he pushes Doodle so hard that the young boy dies.
The big irony is that when they expected the baby dies he lived and when Doodle is forced to perform the above mentioned activities, he dies. Probably Doodle would have lived longer if everyone accepted him as he was.
