Answer:
The quotations from “A Quilt of a Nation” that develop the author’s viewpoint that America’s diversity is what unifies it are:
"That's because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. Out of many, one. That is the ideal."
and...
"These are the representatives of a mongrel nation that somehow, at times like this, has one spirit."
Explanation:
These two quotations talk about putting together things that are totally different so they can work in a whole.
The principle of rhetoric is mainly to persuade and impress and the style can be grandiloquent, grandiose, flowery or extravagant for example. It can be helpful to say introduce a speaker who has a very good education, who is very knowledgeable, very experienced, has excellent judgement and yet is modest for example and the above words could be used to praise him or her to give the audience a good impression of the person.
That we are indeed living in the best of times may or may not be true.
Answer:
A They are innocent casualties of some future fate
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