The letter from Samuel Johnson shown above was made as a refusal to request a woman who would like to receive sponsorship from a bishop to send her son to university.
In the Letter, Johnson explains the reasons that led him to reject this request, stating that they cannot ask the bishop he does not know, sponsorship for a boy the bishop does not know. This is because this type of sponsorship was something very big, with great economic expense. Therefore, this was not offered to strangers, but only to people with whom the sponsors had knowledge and a certain intimacy.
In this letter, Johnson makes recurring use of ethos and logos. He uses ehos, when he shows that he is rejecting the request in the most ethical and respectable way possible, and, he uses logos, when he shows that the refusal is not being made for personal reasons, but for the logic of the situation.
Finally, Johnson says that he believes that the woman's son is a brilliant boy and that it is not necessary for him to go to university to be a great man.
I would think that they were supportive but skeptical. They would want her to succeed but they aren't sure that she will.
This line clearly represents a struggle between two individuals, making A the correct answer.
The conflict is based on the wrongs committed by one man to another.
Answer:
D. It depicts the Vietnam War as a stone that heavily weighs on the speaker's conscience.
Explanation:
According to the lines from the poem Facing It by Yusef Komunyaka, the author talks about trauma and how when he turns one way the "stone let's him go" and if he turns the other way, he's back in Vietnam. This suggests that the poet is talking about a war veteran from the Vietnam war.
The sentence that best describes one effect of the poet's use of figurative language in the excerpt is option D which depicts the Vietnam War as a stone that heavily weighs on the speaker's conscience.
The heart is making that sound
