Which of the following is not a function of a speech introduction? to gain and maintain audience attention to state a brief summary of the main arguments you will be presenting to establish your qualifications for speaking quuzlet

The correct answer is: To establish your qualifications for speaking quuzlet.

Explicitly introducing one's qualifications to do anything at the start of a speech is not a common practice. If it happened, it would be done by someone else before the speaker steps on stage and the speech begins. Althought it may seem as an arrogant practice, a speaker may express their qualifications once having introduced themselves and the arguments to be presented.

d) the narrator even suggested that the white whale, moby d, was ubiquitous and present in every ocean at every moment.  

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.