Imagine that you are tasked with preparing a persuasive speech aimed at convincing your town to support a controversial tax increase that will fund the construction of a nuclear power plant. Considering that the audience is uneasy and fearful about the construction of the power plant and resistant to the proposed tax, which of the following strategies would be MOST effective for capturing an audience’s attention?
A. Connecting with the audience
B. Using humor
C. Asking a rhetorical question
D. Establishing credibility

Athesis statement is not a. a question; it is your answer to a research question that you will address in your essay b. your position on a topic you will address in your persuasive essay c. about the topic of your persuasive essay. it is about the opposite position

Read the excerpt from "a modest proposal." the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown. which statement effectively uses a quotation to show that swift claims that the poor will also benefit from his proposal? “swift writes that poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress.” swift writes that poorer tenants will finally have something to pay their landlord’s rent since they have neither money nor trade. swift writes that poorer tenants will have something to trade for rent since “their corn and cattle” have already been seized. swift writes that “poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own” that can “ to pay their landlord’s rent.”

Which answer best explains the consequences of the mass hysteria that took place during the salem witch trails