Answer:
A friend is someone other than your family or partner that you share close affection with. You share kindness, sympathy, empathy, compassion, loyalty, fun, and probably some common beliefs and values with them. They can be in person or online, your next door neighbor or 1,000 miles away. There are different degrees of friendship.
Answer:
A.
Explanation:
a counterclaim is going against the claim and a rebuttal is going against the counterclaim.
The rhetorical device used by Twain in this excerpt is the anecdote (C.).
<u>An anecdote is defined as an entertaining narrative, usually relating biographical events</u>.
This definition fits to the text because the story is an account of events which happened to the character in the past ("One winter's night, two years ago, I...") and the narrative is comical enough to be considered for entertainement value ("I was carrying off a box of guns ... and he had got my corpse!").
D) mild.
Explanation:
Ardent: enthusiastic or passionate
Mild: not severe, serious or harsh
An antonym is the expression of something being the opposite. Therefore the answer would be D.
