Which of the following statements is true about persuasive writing?
a. fiction and nonfiction can have a persuasive purpose.
b. only speeches can be persuasive.
c. only nonfiction can be persuasive.
d. only political speeches can be persuasive

Read the excerpt. while i am i, and you are you, so long as the world contains us both, me the loving and you the loth, while the one eludes, must the other pursue. what do these lines, from “life in a love” by robert browning, convey about the speaker’s pursuit of his beloved? eventually, they will switch roles, and she will chase him. he will try to win her love for as long as they are both alive. if they lived in a different time and place, he would not love her. they are meant for each other, and he is certain that they will be together.

If this were a fictionalized account, instead of a memoir, which might be the opening sentence? a) i am not your prisoner. b) i find myself in prison. c) you have taken me prisoner. d) black hawk had been taken prisoner.

In 250 words, discuss the ways in which the novel relates to the historical context in which it was published.