The answers to the question above would be the following ones:
A) The rhetorical device used here is repetition. President John F. Kennedy has chosen to repeat the same structures over and over again. We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade (...) not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve (...)".
B) The rhetorical device used here is satire. Satire is the use of humour, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity, particularly in the context of politics.
C) The rhetorical device used here is rhetorical question. Rhetorical questions are asked in order to make a statement. They do not expect any answer. Douglass believes that the wrongfulness of slavery is an issue that he expects everyone to be concerned with.
This is the line <span>from "The Pardoner's Tale" which reveals the Pardoner's feelings towards those to whom he preaches:
</span><span>"A yokel mind loves stories from of old..."
Yokel means uneducated. </span>
Answer:
B) Through my participation in these activities and various community service projects, I have learned the importance of personal responsibility, teamwork, and commitment.
Explanation:
A sentence is a group of words that gives precise and complete meaning. It is concise, consisting of a main clause and probably one or more subordinate clauses. It could be in the form of a command, a statement, a request etc.
A main clause contains subject, object and predicate. This makes a main clause to give a complete meaning. But a subordinate clause contains a subject and a verb, and cannot give a complete meaning.
To revise the given sentence, it is best written as:
Through my participation in these activities and various community service projects, I have learned the importance of personal responsibility, teamwork, and commitment.
Answer:
Maria should look in the engineering terminology book for the meaning of 'columns' or look in the dictionary for its technical meaning.
Explanation:
In the context, Maria who is referring an online text source, is reading about some engineering process. She comes across the word 'columns' which she believes she knew its meaning but she verify by looking the meaning of the word 'column' in an engineering terminology book.
She can also refer to a dictionary and look for its technical meaning. As in typography, the word 'column' means a vertical division of any page or the text. But in engineering, a 'column' may refer to a vertical pillar.
Answer:
Individuals who follow their dreams eventually attain them.
Explanation:
In the excerpt, Walden starts off by stating '...if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.'
The answer is merely a simplified version of what Walden was explaining. You can snuff out keyword such as 'dreams' and 'meet' which mean the same as 'dreams' and 'attain'. The last two option are immediately eliminated as this passage mentioned nothing of cultures. And, the first option couldn't be the answer because the passage mentions nothing of surroundings, so that can be eliminated, leaving the last option as the most logical choice.
