Read the passage below. One benefit of recycling is that it reduces the amount of trash in our nation’s landfills. , recycling conserves natural resources, such as timber and water. What signal word best fills in the blank to connect these two sentences? also then because however

Which phrase best describes the role of irony in a written book? a. to validate readers’ beliefs b. to defy readers’ expectations c. to represent an idea d. to dramatize events apex

What are the effects of parallel structure in this excerpt? check all that apply. it adds emphasis to the verbs that describe the british government’s oppression. it uses repetition to add power to the colonists’ growing list of grievances. it stresses jefferson’s list of grievances, giving the reader a sense of the amount of time the colonists have been oppressed. it emphasizes that all of these acts were carried out by the same person.

Which of these rhetorical devices is most clearly used in the underlined portion of the text?