Responding to: "After Twenty Years" 1. What is one of the themes of this piece? Describe and give at least two examples of evidence of this theme.

2. How well do think O. Henry used irony in this story? Explain your answer using textual support from the reading.

3. What type of conflict does this story use? Provide textual support for your answer.

4. What are the two best examples of imagery O. Henry uses in this story? Explain why you chose those examples.

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

For frederick douglass’s address, “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” (1852)1) does the speaker use fallacious reasoning or logical fallacies? use evidence from the text to support your answers. 2) how effective is the speaker’s response to counterclaims or alternate claims? use evidence from the text to support your answer

What is the reasoning in this argument?