Answer:
- Emotion-arousing words to trigger audience response.
Explanation:
The authors often employ various persuasive techniques(ethos, logos, or pathos) to convince the audience to believe and accept the claim or idea proposed by the author.
In the given excerpt, the textbook tip for persuasion that Gore employed effectively would be 'emotion or ethos' which involves 'employing arousing or triggering words' that targets the emotions of the audience and elicit desired emotional response from them. The use of ethos is reflected by the description or inclusion of personal incident 'his sister dying of lung cancer' to substantiate his point('to restrict tobacco use').
Answer:
Bradbury´s opening uses the literary device of personification by granting a human trait (the capacity to tremble because of weakness) to a non-living thing (the sign on the wall). This sentence also works as a foreshadowing element, as it sets the mood for something going wrong.
Explanation:
Furthermore, it relates to a later metaphor about time being "a film run backward." In the end, the protagonist finds himself trembling because of his weakness, his incapacity to go through the film of time without causing trouble.
Answer:
Reporting on good deeds may change society’s expectations about performing them.
Explanation:
"Putting Good Deeds in Headlines May Not Be So Good" is an article written by Tovia Smith. In his report, Smith says that when good deeds are publicized, one dimishes the value of being good or doing good deeds. While interviewing an expert, the expert said to Smith that when the good deeds, which should be an ordinary norm, is portrayed as extraordinary, it brings moral inflation. Performing good deeds should not be made an extraordinary thing as it poses the danger of creating expectations of not doing good.
People should perform good deeds as a normal standard, as a human being, and not to get a celebrity treatment.
Thus, the central idea of the article is that reporting about good deeds pose the threat of changing society's view on performing them as well.
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