Which part of the excerpt contains a paradox? “. . . I know perfectly well whom she will place me next to . . .” “She will place me next Mary Farquhar, who always flirts . . .” “It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.” “Besides, now that I know you to be a confirmed Bunburyist . . .”

For frederick douglass’s address, “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” (1852)1) does the speaker use fallacious reasoning or logical fallacies? use evidence from the text to support your answers. 2) how effective is the speaker’s response to counterclaims or alternate claims? use evidence from the text to support your answer

Time is not always change. time can also mean continuity, and it can mean keeping acknowledged truths in mind despite differences in circumstances. there is no better example of this in things fall apart than the retellings of the proverb about the bird named eneke, the language in both retellings is almost identical despite the length of time that has passed between their repetitions. in comparing the usages of the same proverb, achebe allows his readers to note the similarities and differences between the situations, and he them understand how this story can be applied to their own lives.

When doing a close reading, what is involved in the process of annotating a text?