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anthropomorphized: to ascribe human form or attributes to an animal, plant, material object, etc.

2. Humans in the cartoon are being depicted as mean and evil.

4. They both show operations. In frame 1 it shows what we are doing to food and then in frame 4 it shows an operation on humans.

5. I think the cartoonist is being ironic because what they are doing to vegetables are now being done to humans.

6. I think the tone is sarcastic. The words and the pictures combined make it seem funny.

1. He presents it first so that it paints and image before he actually starts talking about stuff. arrangement

2. One juxtaposition is in the fourth paragraph where he talks about the joints and pulleys against a skeleton. diction

3. They help create the tone of how he doesn’t like technology. So he uses those words to show that. tone

4. The effect of directly addressing the audience in paragraph four makes it seem more personal because it is everyones issues. purpose/tone

5. Yes because using cause and effect is helpful to the readers so they can understand whats going on throughout the essay. diction and syntax

6. Helped describe what was happening. Using the verbs helped draw an image. diction

7. It was ironic because he was building a cage and had brought out a caged hawk. syntax

8. The effect from going from present to past gives the reader a look at what Eiseley had seen. It ties both present and past together. tone

9. Logos, ethos, and pathos work together by creating an effective essay.  His appeal to paths shows when he talks about the birds flying over New York and how beautiful it would be. logos, ethos, and pathos

6. Denby uses his expertise to prove his points. He uncovers what the director was saying by talking about the character developments. Then he compares it to the other movies with similar situations.

7. Debys central arguement is that movies don’t portray accurate examples of high school people and the surroundings. His secondary arguement is that even though the movies are not accurate, they are appealing to the audience. He brings the two arguements together by using film examples and discusing their appeal.

10. He supports the arugement by saying if they stayed nerdy, they would have ended up on top just like in the movies.

11. These examples bolster his arguement by showing how the films that go over the top have a better catch.

12. The audience is teens and adults.

This essay was a bit confusing. Giovanni, the author, was comparing elephants and drums to the movie Harry Potter. Giovanni skips ahead in Harry Potters life to a situation that never happened in the books.

In respnse to the quote by Sydney J. Harris, I agree with what was said. Education should not be about competition and trying to be the best. I think you should focus on yourself. You should become the best you could be. Harris is saying that awarding students for achievements should not be our motivation for getting an education. Sydney J. Harris’s statement about turning windows into mirrors is a better way of saying that education can help someone see what they are and what they can beome.

This excerpt of Corbett Trubey’s essay says that television is taking control of way too much free time then is should. The omnipresent box that Trubey refers to is a television set. He describes it by saying that it is in almost every home throughout the world. Trubey shares his belief on how he does not approve of this nature.

Trubey says that television controls much more than what we realize. To me he is saying that people don’t know how much time they waste everyday when they sit at the tv set. Whey they watch tv they spend many hours sitting on their butts doing nothing. Trubey talks about television in such a negative way that it tells me he does not like to watch television.

My views tend to be different. This is because I enjoy watching television. Television is a huge part of the worlds culture. When you walk into someones house and they are sitting at the tv, watch them. They are so focused on the show they are watching that they are not aware of whats going on around them. The statistics Trubey presents shows that television takes up a majority of our lives.

Most of the things Trubey talks about I agree with. Though. unlike him, I don’t view television as such a bad thing. It is very informative. Yes, like Trubey said, television is becoming more apparent in the world. People don’t realize how much of their lives go to waste when they sit in front of the television set.

1. I would have to rad about some huge, new invention a four year old kid created. I would also have to read about how we are not allowed to use any more of our modern technology like laptops, computers, cellphones, or ipods.

2. Well, each person benefits from the other. Science repeats itself a lot and now when you watch the news, read newspapers, or go on the internet the same thing happens.

3. Funny, haha! If I really loved nature like Eiseley did then of course I would find the sight beautiful. But since I don’t, I don’t see the sight as beautiful. Eiseley would be heartbroken when he hears that the birds home was destroyed, but at the same time happy that it was restored.

4. In paragraph twenty one he uses epiphany. He describes how hard it was to catch the bird.

5. “It’s life I believe in, not machines.”

6. Eiseley tells us that as technology and science expands the more we forget about earth and the universe.

1. His purpose is to state that people are not thinking for themselves and that they go along with other people think.

2. Well, when Twain says, “I,” he states it from his personal opinion. By changing from I to We, he separates his opinion from what we all do.

3. The anecdote draws the audience in. By using the idea from a young slave, he is also drawing the audience’s attention.

4. Twain adds to Jerry’s definition. He gives examples from our day.

5. The hoopskirts, bloomers, and wineglasses strengthen Twains argument.

6. The irony is that Twain thinks people follow trends.

7. Its long because it gives many examples of ways people follow each other. He could have broken it up into how people follow and how people think for themselves.

8. The effect of the parallelism is so that it can show his comparisons and the differences so we can understand it.

9. Capitalizing “Public Opinion” and “Voice of God” at the end of the essay gives the effect of how it is and it makes it seem important.

11.  Most of the people believing in one thing and others believing in another is a hyperbole. An understatement is when he says that no on laughs at the hoopskirts but that he doesn’t know if no one laughed.

The general argument made by author Francine Prose in her work, ” I know why the Caged Birds Cannot Read,” is that high school students are not interested in literature. She writes in paragraph thirty- four, ” If educators continue to assume that teenagers are interested exclusively in books about teenagers, there is engaging, truthful fiction about childhood and adolescence, written in ways that remind is why someone might read.” In this passage, Prose is suggesting that educators think that teenagers can relate to teenage books.  In conclusion, Prose’s belief is that high school teenagers would enjoy reading literature if the teachers provided interesting text.

In my view, Prose is right because a lot of the literature presented in high school is very boring and not close to being interesting. More specifically, I believe that if teachers came up with more interesting literature, students who read will increase. For example, if I was given a good book to read and I finish it early, then I would want to keep reading more books like that because it was so interesting. Therefore I conclude that teachers should choose more teenage relatable literature.

1. In my case I believe this not to be true. Most of my English classes have not been so interesting. So therefore I don’t think the love of reading has been born in high school English classes.

2. I’m not sure if I agree with Proses statement because I’m not completely understanding it. But I think that students can relate and apply this to their lives.

1. She uses personal experiences as a mom, an author, and as a teacher. As a mom she talks about how books that her kids read are not as good as they really could be. As and author and a teacher she is contempt with what is being done with books. All the roles she plays establishes ethos, all in different ways.

2. Prose starts off with such strong language to get her point across. In doing so, she catches the readers attention. Her strong voice and language sends out her opinion about English classes and the choice of books they read.

3. She says that high school reading is not understood by students. She also thinks that high school students do not have enough knowledge to understood what authors are trying to say.

6. I’ve never read,” I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings,” but I would have to agree with what Prose had said. She says that the book isn’t a good form of literature.

7. Prose use rhetoric questions to make the reader think. It makes the reader think and gets them involved.

8. Prose would have been able to strengthen  her argument with facts and quotes. It would back her argument up if she has quotes from students.

9. Prose lets readers know that in her opinion, high school students dislike literature. And that they don’t understand the text and the way teachers teach them is not helping students totally comprehend what they read. The books don’t appeal to students. Prose gives examples of books that students are required to read that are both lame and stupid.