Which statement from the passage uses an emotional appeal? A mere glance at the list of exceptions to the NBA salary cap is enough to drive the most
knowledgeable fans-and even team owners—to distraction. (paragraph 5)
The purposes of all these exceptions are similar: to allow teams to exceed the salary cap and
thus obtain or retain star players in order to increase their chances of winning a championship.
(paragraph 6)
The outcome of salary cap softness is that the teams with the highest payrolls markedly
outperform low-spending teams. (paragraph 8)
For the 2018-19 season, the Warriors and the Thunder each overspent the cap by an amazing
$43,000,000. (paragraph 10)

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.

What does the morality play everyman say about fate and free will? develop a short response using examples from the text to support your answer.

What happens to graders who use a red pen? a. they are more accurate with thier correctionsb. they find more errorsc. they feel themselves getting angrt when they graded. they make more mistakes