Answer: This is an example of a REFUTATIONAL speech pattern.
Explanation: In a refutation speech, the speaker must anticipate the audience's opposition, then bring attention to the tensions between the two sides, and finally refute them using evidential support. Refutation patterns are frequently seen in debates, where speakers are fundamentally opposed to one another's arguments.
Leo and his audience here fits into the above definition.
Answer:
Yes.
Explanation:
A metaphor is a way of describing something by saying it is something else. This technique should be familiar to you as you will have studied it at 3rd level.
"Marigolds" takes place in a town which is a slum area, in rural Maryland during the Great depression. The narrator, Elizabeth, remembers it as a "Dry September" which the situation with Miss Lotties marigolds took place. (hopefully that helps for a start, of course you can always take something out or add more information) good luck :)
