In this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy’s "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", the sentences that best shows how Ivan Ilyich struggles with his life and his inability to let go of his past are:
"He was hindered from getting into it by his conviction that his life had been a good one. That very justification of his life held him fast and prevented his moving forward, and it caused him most torment of all."
In this two sentences, we can see that Ivan Ilyich cannot comprehend what is happening to him if his life had been so god. His past happiness does not allow him to accept his current situation. Ivan Ilyich is aware of this incapacity of letting go of his past and feels frustrated and depressed because of it.
1. Standard English is the language spoken by educated Americans.
2. Slang means street language that coins new words and new meanings.
3. Dialect is the regional variation of the national language.
4. Jargon is the language of a skill, trade, or profession.
5. Idiom: phrases and expressions unique to a language.
6. Language: the sounds and soud patterns that are meaninful to people from the same culture.
7. Writing is a graphic representation of sounds.
8. Ungrammatical speech: language spoken by a child learnig to talk.
Answer:
An Ad Hominem fallacy is when someone personally attacks you to avert the audience from the real point.
Explanation:
<u>Example</u>: Person 1 - <em>"We should raise the minimum wage!"</em>
Person 2 - <em>"Oh please, don't listen to her, she's not even smart</em>
<em> enough to run a business!"</em>
Person 1 attacked Person 2 without even saying why raising the minimum wage is a bad idea. Ad Hominem is when someone insults another person instead of giving reasoning to why their opinion/statement is a bad idea. They try and steer you away from the point so that you agree with them. Maybe Person 1 isn't smart enough to run a business, but maybe she has a good idea in why they should raise the minimum wage.
