ACTIVITY ing Arguments
Read the following excerpt from the essay, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Road" by
Francine Prose. Identify what you consider to be fallacies in her argument and discuss the
effects those fallacies have on the soundness of her argument.
Coged Bird Cannot Read

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

The opening stanza portray a frightened narrator fleeing though darkness. how does it rhythm reflect and enhance its meaning

Have you ever felt like the person in this image during a speech or presentation? list four or five things this person can do to be a more effective listener.