People who complain that video games involve too much sitting are probably old. They probably don’t know very much about gaming, either. They don’t realize that people can play virtual sports, such as tennis, on video games. There are video games for dancing, too. If people bothered to learn about the different kinds of video games, they would see how wrong they are. This student’s sample paragraph addresses the counterclaim. Critique this paragraph by answering the questions.

What is the counterclaim?

Video games are too violent.

Video games make people inactive.

Video games are different today.

What evidence weakens the counterclaim?

People who complain are old.

Sitting too much is bad for people.

There are video games for sports and dancing.

What is the tone of the rebuttal?

respectful

rude

humorous

Antony refers to brutus and his co conspirators as honorable.what effect does the continued repetition of this word have on the tone of the words around it?

Why does pumblechook choke on the brandy at christmas dinner? a. he has had too much to drink. b. mrs. joe had only spoiled brandy to serve him. c. pip replaced it with tar water. d. he becomes overexcited telling his story.

Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.