Drag each tile to the correct box.
match each excerpt to the rhetorical device it uses.
satire
rhetorical questions
repetition
we choose to go to the moon. we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other
things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will
serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is
one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend
to win, and the others, too.
(president john f. kennedy, "the decision to go to the moon")
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"cuss the doctor! what do we k'yer for him? hain't we got all the fools in town on our side?
and ain't that a big enough majority in any town? "
(mark twain, adventures of huckleberry finn)
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must i argue the wrongfulness of slavery? is that a question for republicans? is it to be settled
by the rules of logic and argumentation, as a matter beset with great difficulty, involving a
doubtful application of the principle of justice, hard to understand?
(frederick douglass, "what to the slave is the fourth of july? ")
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The essay sea stars by barbara hurd. what point is the author making by comparing a sea star missing an arm to a human losing a limb?

2. page 1: schlosser describes "just another gorgeous rocky mountain vista. and yet cheyenne mountain is hardly pristine." why do you think schlosser describes the beautiful cheyenne mountain scene in detail before describing the military installation that lies inside?

Read the quotation from "an occurrence at owl creek bridge." and now he became conscious of a new disturbance. striking through the thought of his dear ones was a sound which he could neither ignore nor understand, a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith’s hammer upon the anvil; it had the same ringing quality. he wondered what it was, and whether immeasurably distant or near by—it seemed both. its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death knell. he awaited each stroke with impatience and—he knew not why—apprehension. the intervals of silence grew progressively longer, the delays became maddening. with their greater infrequency the sounds increased in strength and sharpness. they hurt his ear like the thrust of a knife; he feared he would shriek. what he heard was the ticking of his watch. which best describes the effect of the narration in the excerpt? it suggests that the man being executed feels tranquil and at peace. it suggests that the narrator is sympathetic to the man being executed. it suggests that the plot will become less tense as the story continues. it suggests that the story will become more intense and mysterious.