(Continuation story) and wealthy station, even without reference to the perpetuation of family firms: with her eyes fully open to these advantages that Mrs. Dombey had had daily practical knowledge of his position and they're remarkably ladylike and becoming matter that Mrs. dombey must have been happy that she couldn't help but help it.

4. Using your own words, describe Mr Dombey's attitude to:
a. his wife
b. his son
c. his business.
5. Imagine you work for Mr Dombey. Write an entry for your journal on the day his son is born.
Include comments on:
Mr Dombey's personality Mr Dombey's business
Mr Dombey's family life.
Write about 250 to 350 words.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.

“what i heard was abominable,” said utterson. “it can make no change. you do not understand my position,” returned the doctor, with a certain incoherency of manner. “i am painfully situated, utterson; my position is a very strange—a very strange one. it is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.” –the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde, robert louis stevenson write two to three sentences explaining how this passage creates suspense.

Which rhetorical strategy is kennedy using in this excerpt from his address at rice university