"to interrupt another, even in common conversation, is reckon’d highly indecent. how different this is, from the conduct of a polite british house of commons where scarce every person without some confusion, that makes the speaker hoarse in calling to order and how different from the mode of conversation in many polite companies of europe, where if you do not deliver your sentence with great rapidity, you are cut off in the middle of it by the impatient loquacity of those you converse with, and never suffer’d to finish it—"

in this excerpt from "remarks concerning the savages of north america," which device does franklin use to convey his opinion? irony metaphor satire understatement

a. irony
b. metaphor
c. satire
d. understatement

Read this excerpt from "hope, despair and memory" and answer the question. and yet it is surely human to forget, even to want to forget. the ancients saw it as a divine gift. indeed if memory us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living. how could we go on with our daily lives, if we remained constantly aware of the dangers and ghosts surrounding us? the talmud tells us that without the ability to forget, man would soon cease to learn. without the ability to forget, man would live in a permanent, paralyzing fear of death. only god and god alone can and must remember everything. which of the following is true about the above excerpt? ethos is used in reference to “dangers and ghosts.” logos is used in saying all men forget and want to forget, because the talmud also praised forgetting. ethos is used in referring to the ancients, the talmud, and god. pathos is used without loaded language.

How do i can change this sentence : a modern physician in a small town not only is proficient in general medicine but surgery as well. to parallel structure?

What is meant by “eternally burning black pipes”? what is this implying about the personality of the firemen?