What's an author's purpose?
"Kostia and Edik's find was big. More than once-in-a-lifetime big. More than once-in-a-millennium big. They had discovered a frozen baby wooly mammoth. People had discovered the bones of mammoths before. They had even found large parts of frozen mammoth bodies. Never had anyone found a mammoth - or any other extinct, prehistoric animal - that was completely whole and so well preserved." - Mammoths and Mastadons: Titans of the Ice Age by Cheryl Bardoe

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. she was a small woman, short and straight-waisted like a child in her brown cotton gown. her forehead was mild and benevolent between the smooth curves of gray hair; there were meek downward lines about her nose and mouth; but her eyes, fixed upon the old man, looked as if the meekness had been the result of her own will, never of the will of another. in at least one hundred words, explain how this excerpt uses explicit and implicit details to describe sarah penn.

The interaction between joanna and triburcio can best be described as a) heated b) apathetic c) despondent d) hopeful

Which component of a rhetorical argument is missing from the chart above? a. civics (civos) b. ethics (ethos) c. patriotics (patros) d. histrionics (histros)