As with any author's decision to use 1st person, her intention most likely -- in this story -- was to get her readers to go along for the ride into madness and cultivate a certain amount of sympathy for the narrator and her plight. The constant use of "I" puts readers in the narrator’s head and allows them to empathize with her.
DescriptionAppeal to emotion a logical fallacy characterized by the manipulation of the persons emotions in order to win an argument.
Answer:
New Media
Explanation:
These are items which were not available in the olden days
Answer:
Happy, admiring??
Explanation:
I think it is admiring because it is talking about the old man and how he never did anything bad. I may be wrong so please correct me if I am. Everybody makes mistakes.
You didn't italize or mark the phrase, but I see one good candidate:
"The circus animal trainer" is in a way another name given to Mervin, a kind of "renaming" him: this is called an appositive phrase, so if this was the phrase appositive phrase is the answer! (also, I don't see the other phrases here).