1. Reread this passage from Josh Billings's lecture on "Snails, Snakes, and Babies." The striped snake is one of the slippenest jobs that nature ever tured loose. They travel on the lower side of themselves, and can slip out of sight like blowing out a candle. They were made for some good purpose, but I never have been informed for what, unless it was to have their heads smashed. They are said to be innocent, but they have got a bad reputation, and all the innocence in the world won't cure a bad reputation. Which style of comedy does the passage demonstrate?

appeals to readers' emotions

the frequent use of folksy sayings

eloquent complex arguments

a reliance on multiple-meaning words​

Option C

Explanation:

The style of the passage here means that despite of all goodness of snakes, their head is smashed because their goodness cannot beat their bad reputation in the world. This passage bring in light two contrasting side of an individual and hence the style of comedy in the passage can be regarded as eloquent complex arguments

Hence, option C is correct

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

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