Answer:
A). An example of Procatalepsis.
C). Used by Reagan to acknowledge an opposing view.
E). Followed by a counterargument proving Reagan's point.
Explanation:
The given excerpt from Ronald Reagan's speech at the Moscow State University, the underlined words employ 'procatalepsis'(rhetorical exercise) to raise an objection over the common belief that 'freedom makes people selfish and materialistic' but he states that 'Americans are one of the most religious people on the earth.' The use of 'but' reflects the use of 'procatalepsis.' Reagan <u>acknowledges the contradictory views by providing the reasons to substantiate the claim(why 'Americans are most religious people')</u> which is followed by <u>a counterargument to defy George Washington's claim and validate his point</u>. Thus, <u>options A, C, and E</u> are the correct answers.
Answer: False
Explanation:
Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is a fictional character in the Leaphorn & Chee Series. He is a Navajo man with a strong sense of tradition which he picked up from his maternal grandfather who instructed him on the ways of the Navajo.
Lieutenant Leaphorn uses this knowledge to solve crimes and catch culprits by relating nature and man as the Navajo believe that the two are interdependent and so cannot do something without the other being affected.
Answer:
Explanation:
Stand out like a sore thumb-to be noticeably different from others
Went up in smoke- to be wasted
Hard to swallow -difficult to accept
Cut the mustard -to meet expectations
<span>The language of the Anglo-Saxons (up to about 1150), a highly inflected language with a largely Germanic vocabulary, very different from modern English.</span>
Words clause and brought have similar spelling: clause is spelled 'klawz', and brought is spelled 'brawt'. So, both are spelled with 'aw'. On the other hand, their meaning is different. Also, clause is a noun while brought is a verb. A clause is a syntactic construction that forms part of a sentence or is a whole simple sentence. Brought is simple past tense and past participle of 'bring'.