Read the excerpt from Bruno's summary of Gulliver's Travels.When Gulliver tours the academy, he sees a man attempting to get sunbeams out of cucumbers and a man trying to turn ice into gunpowder.This summary is an example of _____
  • encourage debate.
  • that parents would rather sell their children than be responsible for them
  • purpose.
  • a paraphrase
Read the passage from An Essay on Man.Self-love and reason to one end aspire,Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire;But greedy that, its object would devour,This taste the honey, and not wound the flow'rThe author contrasts words with positive and negative connotations tocreate humor.encourage debate.clarify his argument.make an emotional appeal.
  • quiet
  • encourage debate.
  • think about something seriously.
  • compare them to the features of the atom.
Read the paragraph from the Declaration of Independence.When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.Now, read the paragraph from the Declaration of Sentiments.When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course.To most effectively compare the two passages, the reader should comparethe similarities in the wording.the origins of the two authors.the dates the texts were written.the differences in rhetorical appeals.
  • the similarities in the wording.
  • they found the charge and trouble very great, and they had little or no crop
  • compare them to the features of the atom.
  • think about something seriously.
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