Prewriting
(Although, I have learned that sometimes it is during the writing and revising period that you can truly find the purpose in your essay. Yes, you may think you know the purpose as you develop your topic and whatnot, but you can never predict where your writing will take you. But for the purpose of your question, the answer is Prewriting.)
Answer:
<u>Counterclaims: </u>
- Bigotry, slavery, sweatshops, ostracism
- America as a nation fails more than it succeeds
Claim - Main argument
Reason - Anything that supports the claim
Evidence - Anything that proves the claim
Claim: This is a nation founded on a conundrum
Reason: Historians must have forgotten the past, or have gilded it
Evidence: The New York of my children is no more Balkanized (Divided into nations or political sectors)...than the Philadelphia of my father..."
In her article “A Quilt of a Country” Anna Quindlen claims that though we all are different but are always united as a country. In paragraph 3, her opposing viewpoint is that we all are separated by individuality. For this view, the <u>counterargument</u> that <u>she offers it that we are separated by individuality by different people from other parts of the world. She wants her people to learn to work together and learn each other's costumes in order to be connected. </u>
Answer:
It would be a free verse poem.
Explanation:
First, there are three quatrains which are four lines each
Then you have a couplet that is the last two lines
Your answer is three quatrains then a couplet
Hope this helps!