“As for intellect, all I can say is, if a woman have a pint, and
a man a quart—why can't she have her little pint full? You
need not be afraid to give us our rights for fear we will take
too much,—for we can't take more than our pint'll hold.”

How does the rhetoric in these sentences support Truth's central idea?

By firmly stating that most women are physically smaller than men, Truth argues that women should have rights specifically designed for
them.

By subtly referring to the fact that she has been unable to develop her intellect, Truth suggests that the power of her speech is based on emotion.

By slyly suggesting that women could never be as smart as men, Truth
assures men that granting women equal rights would not be a threat.

By directly comparing a quart to a pint, Truth is embracing the idea that there will always be fundamental differences between men and women.

What is a hyperbole in the book messenger

How does the author view the idea that you have to be perfect in order to get into college

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.