Tom calls Nick Shakespeare referring to the time they spent in college together at Yale when Nick wanted to become an author like Shakespeare. Nick feels that he has moved on from that dream.
C. To keep the reader's interest. Syntax is the structure of a sentence (how long it is and how it is punctuated). It does not really deal with the specific, individual words that an author chooses--so a, b and c would not be the answer because they deal with the actual words in the text.
Ethos is the appeal to ethics. It uses your beliefs to try to convince someone that you should believe them
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