"Heat", by Hilda Doolittle, is a short poem that speaks about the effects of really strong heat on the speaker. It has several characteristics that make it unique, aside from being really short. The first is, we do not know who this speaker is, or where exactly the person is. All we know is that there is a lot of heat and that it must be somewhere tropical because of the mention of fruits falling from trees. Not much else is known. We also know that the speaker has strong feelings and emotions being generated by the sense and perception of this heat. Another thing is that as for literary devices, "Heat" is very particular in that it does not stay with just one device; it makes use of several. One of them is hyperbole, in order to create imagery, which is the end goal. But it also uses a lot of alliteration. In fact, when talking about the wind, one of the characteristics that comes forward is the repetition of the T consonant almost throughout the stanza. The correct answer, then, is B: Alliteration.
Answer: "By Any Other Name" by Santha Rau
Explanation:
This persuasive technique is called appeal to authority.
Appeal to authority is a persuasive technique where the speaker relies on the credibility of another person or event to suport their own argument. It is often considered a fallacy because the speaker depends on the "authority"instead of presenting their own evidence.
Example:
"A commercial claims that <u>3 out of 4 dentists</u> would choose this particular brand of toothpaste for their own families to use."
In this statement, the dentists are the authority the argument depends on.
