<span> 1. Confuse
2. His wife is beautiful, young, and wealthy
3. Peculiar
4. They are abnormally large.
5. Has inner qualities that make him admirable
6. Aversion
7. transience...veracity
8. fervent...dissonant
9. libertarian
10. lavishly...meager
11. correct
12. and the (The "the" is unnecessary)
13. those are
14. No error (Though, there should be a comma after "week.")
15. alot of fish (It should be a lot, not alot.) </span>
Answer:
<h3>The rhetorical device of "pathos".</h3>
Explanation:
- In her speech "Ain't I a woman", when the speaker Sojourner says that she gave birth to 13 children and saw them all sold into slavery, she is trying to invoke <u>emotional appeal</u> to the listeners.
- Also known as "Pathos", it is a rhetorical device that tries to <u>persuade the readers and listeners through emotional and sentimental attributions</u>. When the speakers says that all her children were sold to slavery, the <u>listeners could feel the pain of a mother </u>who has lost not one but thirteen of her children.
The second choice best applies to the given excerpt. First, it can be noted from this excerpt that the writer wants to convey a pessimistic view of fate. With that, the last choice will not apply to the paragraph anymore. The second and third choices do not apply as well because all words used were neither jargon nor difficult. Rather the words and phrases used like, "interested...but changed their minds", "frustrated", and "revolution in the mountains", were easy to grasp and quickly conveys how a possibly bright future has turned into a sour one.
ANSWER: Passive verb forms are used to shift the focus off the agent and onto the subject.
There are two nouns in a basic sentence; a subject and an agent. The agent acts on the subject. Here, the subject is bolded and the agent is italicized.
I ate <em>cereal.
^ </em>That is an active sentence, because it focuses on the 'I'. Below are examples of passive sentences.
<em>
</em><em>Cereal </em>was eaten by me.
<em></em><em>Cereal </em>was eaten.
^As you can see, sometimes passive sentences don't even contain a subject. This is particularly useful when you want to divert attention from the agent, such as when your sibling asks where the last bit of cereal went (Doesn't <em></em>'The cereal was eaten' sound less guilty than 'I ate the cereal'?)
Hope this helped!
