1.READ + ANNOTATE “The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society”--handout
2.IDENTIFY 5 different rhetorical devices used a some place in the essay.
3.COMPLETE Appositives Exercise 2, pp. 273-274
ANSWERS FOR HOMEWORK DUE MONDAY:
2.IDENTIFY 5 different rhetorical devices used a some place in the essay.
3.COMPLETE Appositives Exercise 2, pp. 273-274
ANSWERS FOR HOMEWORK DUE MONDAY:
- My father, a truly exceptional man, word at an ordinary job and was known outside the small town where he lived.
- His rage passes description--the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folks that have more than they can enjoy suddenly loose something that they have long had but never before used or wanted.
- DuBois saw the grandeur and degradation in a single unifying thought—slavery was the West’s tragic flaw; yet it was tragic precisely because of the greatness of the civilization that encompassed it.
- The eruptions in the early part of the century—the time of world wars and emergent modernity--were premonitions of a sort.
- Evidently I need this starting point—the world as it appeared before people bent it to their myriad plans--from which to begin dreaming up my own myriad, imaginary agendas.
- The war America waged in Vietnam, the first to be witnessed day after day by television cameras, introduced the home front to new tele-intimacy with death and destruction.
- The restaurant’s signature dish, a tantalizing fish taco, is also one of the least expensive entrees on the menu.
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