Answer:
In the given passage, the word puncheon refers to a smoothed log used during summer time as this is cool.
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This extract, taken from Twain's Huckleberry Finn, is trying to create a scene, where the protagonist enters the church and finds a dog (hog) or two inside the church. He is trying to say that dogs like smooth logs to sleep on as they become very cool during the night on any summer day. Therefore, the word puncheon, here, describes a smoothed log.
Answer: It is specific.
Explanation:
The evidence provided in the excerpt make the author's argument more effective because it is specific.
The author was specific about the importance of switching to renewable energy. He outlined that it can lead to job creation and he was specific and gave examples about how it can create many jobs in the United States.
Appeal to emotion. He's trying to manipulate people's emotions by saying things like ""deserves the love and thanks" which is very positive. Who wouldn't want to be loved and thanked by others? I think he's trying to say that if you fight, you will be honored.
Appeal to ethics is when the writer tries to convince the reader that he is knowledgeable about the subject like if he said, "As a doctor...." But he doesn't refer to himself in this passage.
Appeal to logic would be using facts, reasoning, evidence, and stuff, but I don't see a lot of facts here.
Appeal to authority would be him saying that because another person said something, it must be true. But he doesn't refer to anyone else here.
The meaning of Gwendolen's words is that she is against the traditional idea that women are the ones who should stay at home to be in charge of the domestic duties. She shows that women might have a position of power and that men can stay at home.
The literary technique used is Paradox because Gwendolen proposes a reversal of the traditional and well-known ideas.
4 meters. That's 400 centimeters which is clearly greater than 28 cm.
