Read the paragraph from "The Limits of Empathy" Some influences, which we think of as trivial, are much stronger-such as a temporary burst of positive emotion. In one experiment in the 1970s, researchers planted a dime in a phone booth. Eighty-seven percent of the people who found the dime offered to help a person who dropped some papers nearby, compared with only 4 percent who didn't find a dime. Empathy doesn't produce anything like this kind of effect

How does the rhetorical technique used in this paragraph help readers understand the author's purpose?

The author uses a paradox to inform readers

The author uses a rhetorical question to persuade readers

The author uses hyperbole to entertain readers

The author uses an anecdote to inform readers.​

What is in his westrose president lincoln central claim in the speech

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.

Which characteristic of james baldwin’s “notes of a native son” qualify as a work of literary nonfiction