A) Texting can cause fatal traffic accidents and misunderstandings between friends.
Based on the given excerpt above from “How the Internet and Other Technologies Came About,” the type of rhetoric that is used most in this excerpt to convince readers of the author’s point of view is an appeal to logic. The answer would be option A. <span>an appeal to logic.</span> Hope this answers your question. Have a great day!
Metaphor is one of the many figures of speech in which it uses implied comparison between two or more things that are not related but with specific similarities. Here are examples:
The rejection I received is another door for a great opportunity ahead.
She is the glasses of his eye frame.
<span>She has bouncy balls of emotions just by seeing him.</span>
He tells the ending of the story first, and then explains how it happened so that the reader knows the emotions colonel Owens feels after their escape.
Explanation: Charles Chesnutt gives a general idea of how the characters end up at the beginning of the story so that the reader is aware of where is everything leading up to. He then tells the journey of the Colonel's son and the slave he saved; Grandison, since he looked trustworthy to the Colonel. After a series of events, the author chooses to finally reveal how unfortunate the Colonel feels after catching a glimpse of Grandison and his family escaping on a boat.