A. The speaker understands that many students wish they did not have to work so hard is the correct answer.
Explanation:
Barack Obama was the 44th President of the United States, between 2009 and 2017. The excerpt belongs to the Back to School speech delivered in 2009.
In the excerpt, Obama uses pathos, a rhetorical device very used to persuade and based on emotions of pity or sympathy, as in this case. The speaker uses his own experience to create a bond between him and the objects of the speech to show them that he understands how difficult it is for students to work hard.
Explanation: Personification is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
A) When she says “I don’t see the power, the confidence you say I have,” she’s saying that other people see her in a way that she can never see herself as
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