PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A? A “Bhanji’s team wanted to find out what strategies people use to forge ahead after failing. To test this, they brought 30 volunteers into a lab and had them play a computer game.” ( Paragraph 5)

B “Activity here dropped off when players brushed off a failure that had been within their control (such as guessing the wrong key and failing that so-called exam).” ( Paragraph 9)

C “So when failures are beyond someone’s control, he says, rethinking our emotional responses seems to help.” ( Paragraph 11)

D “This could mean that when people are under stress, they are only motivated to forge on if they can learn from their setbacks.” ( Paragraph 13)

In at least 150 words, describe the tone of patrick henry’s virginia convention speech, including the rhetorical devices he uses to achieve this. use evidence from the text to support your answer.

Within a farewell to arms, what would be the best definition of the word “regiments”?

What type of writing is demonstrated in this excerpt by general philip henry sheridan? at once i set about preparing for the examination which precedes admission to the military academy, studying zealously under the direction of mr. william clark; my old teachers, mcnanly and thorn, having disappeared from somerset and sought new fields of usefulness. the intervening months passed rapidly away, and i fear that i did not make much progress, yet i thought i should be able to pass the preliminary examination. that which was to follow worried me more and gave me many sleepless nights; but these would have been less in number, i fully believe, had it not been for one specification of my, outfit which the circular that accompanied my appointment demanded. this requirement was a pair of "monroe shoes." now, out in ohio, what "monroe shoes" were was a mystery—not a shoemaker in my section having so much as an inkling of the construction of the perplexing things, until finally my eldest brother brought an idea of them from baltimore, when it was found that they were a familiar pattern under another name. a. research essay b. persuasive essay c. biography d. memoir