How do details from the excerpts support the author’s purpose? in the first excerpt, the author uses facts and statistics, while in the second excerpt, the author uses words that appeal to readers’ emotions. in the first excerpt, the author relies on third-person point of view, while in the second excerpt, the author uses first-person point of view. in the first excerpt, the author uses words to persuade the reader, while in the second excerpt, the author uses language to entertain the reader. in the first excerpt, the author uses narrative techniques and figurative language, while in the second excerpt, the author includes facts to persuade.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

What element of medieval literature does the disappearance of the sword into the lake represent?

Which from of the moderifier best completes the sentence of the 10 students? malcolm did on the quiz. best more better bestest better