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Pathos and ethos are two effective ways used by authors to persuade their audience. Using the underlined words, identify whether pathos or ethos is used here in the following excerpt.

“The progress of our arms . . . is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.”

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Both ethos and pathos

dentify the connotation of the following phrase from “I Have No Address”

“A thousand tongues”

• The ability to eat different types of food

• The ability to communicate in many ways

• The ability to celebrate with different people

• The ability to live in many places that provide different cuisines

The poem I Have No Address is makes use of this figure of speech:

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Read these lines from “Under This Sky.”

Naked trees in Central Park and Ramna Park

quiver with dreams of new life and love.

These lines convey the idea of

• recurring desires

• eternal longing

• changing seasons

• continual growth

How can you describe the tone of the two poems?

• sad and desolate

• humorous

• reassuring

• angry

Pathos is:

• a writer's appeal to emotions and feelings

• a writer's appeal to logic

• a writer's effort to show morality and credibility

• None

Which of the following word pairs is an example of homophones?

• present, present

• sign, sing

• object, object

• meat, meet

Homographs are words that have the same sound

• True

• False

If "inter" means between, then interstate means

• outside the state

• between states

• inside the state

Knowing the meaning of the prefix intra, what is the meaning of the word intranet?

• private net

• public net

• bad net

• open net