Drag each tile to the correct box. Match each nonfiction excerpt to the rhetorical device it uses.
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I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, whi(n I hope will not
liable to the least objection. I have been assured by very knuwing American of
my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year
old a most delicious, nourishing, d wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted,
baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee :
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(lonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal*)
This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing
drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the
sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands
of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
(Martin Luther King Jr. "1 Have a Dream')
Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and
South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will
you join in that historic effort?
(President John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961)
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