2. What is the author's viewpoint in “Sidestepping Student Debt”? How does the author use rhetoric to advance a viewpoint? Use evidence from the text to demonstrate your understanding of the rhetorical devices the author uses and their effect. Your response should be at least two complete paragraphs. And: How does Shakespeare use personification, metaphor, and symbolism to develop tone in the excerpt from Julius Caesar? Remember that tone can change throughout a text, depending on what the author is trying to convey. Use evidence from the text to support your determinations about how the figurative language in the text creates tone. Your response should be at least three complete paragraphs.

Demonstrating understanding of jem's development one way to demonstrate understanding of character and theme is by writing from the perspective of a character. for this assignment, compose a short poem from the perspective of jem. your poem should detail his feelings about either a. his father, atticus or b. mrs. dubose. the poem must accurately trace the progression of jem's attitudes and beliefs, highlighting the important events and shifts in his perspective detailed above. your writing should also sound like jem, using voice and word choice that reflects the voice and word choice found in the novel. the poem can be a free poem (meaning it does not need to rhyme or follow a particular format). it should be a minimum of twenty-lines in length, have a title, and follow conventional rules of spelling, grammar, and punctuation.