Its seems like Jamie is using reasoning because he is reasoning with Mike that he wont regret it, that is what i think it is
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Hi! Thank you so much for coming to my birthday party. I deeply appreciate your prescence and gift. I like it a lot! This just goes to show you know me so well. I hope you had a great time, because I know I did. If you'd like, we could hang out another time. Thank you again.
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Some of these scholars made otherwise significant contributions to the worlds knowledge of ancient Egypt.
The correct answer to 19) is A: to inform.
The purpose of this article is to inform, that is, to explain and tell someone about particular facts; in this particular case, the authors informs about the discovery of a new unnamed island in the northern Pacific Ocean. This article seek to explain how volcanoes are formed and how important or relevant these volcanoes are to Earth.
The other options are not possible answers since the article does not include specific vocabulary or literary techniques that may influence the readers or make them think in a particular way. Moreover, the article is not written to entertain the readers since it only presents factual information for those who are interested in these kind of topics or who want to learn about this new discovery.
The correct answer to 20) is A: the author's purpose is to inform the reader about how a new Pacific island was formed.
As explained above, the author wants to share with the audience the discovery of a new unnamed island in the Pacific Ocean. The author presents explicit information about the island, such as location and dimension, and then he/she provides factual details about how volcanoes are formed and how these eruptions affect the Earth's surface and plates.
For this reason, the other options are not possible. The author does not present jokes nor expressions to make the readers laugh. Moreover, the author does not explain the uses people can make on this island and he does not describe the flora and fauna (plants and animals) that may live on this island.
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b.I treasure the brooch, but it is not my most valued possessions.
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The line is taken from Edna St. Vincent Millay's short elegy poem "The Courage that My Mother Had". The poem is included in the collection <em>"Mine the Harvest"</em> published in 1949, one year before the death of the poetess.
The line "I have no thing to treasure more:" shows that the poetess has nothing which she treasures more than the golden brooch, to simply mean that she treasures the golden brooch more than anything else.
The second line contrasts (also signified by the use of contrast word <em>"yet"</em>) what is described in the first part. Here she says that she could still spare the brooch, meaning, she could leave it, or let it go (if she could get her mother's courage in return). Hence option B is correct.
Option A and D are completely incorrect stating opposite of what the poetess says and means in the given lines.
Option C is incorrect because firstly there is no mention of courage in these lines, secondly because, in next lines of the poem, we come to know she values courage more than the brooch.