As of 1973, the u. s. had a population of 210 million people, who were increasing by 0.8 percent per year. outside our lifeboat, let us imagine another 210 million people (say the combined populations of colombia, ecuador, venezuela, morocco, pakistan, thailand and the philippines) who are increasing at a rate of 3.3 percent per year. put differently, the doubling time for this aggregate population is 21 years, compared to 87 years for the u. s. what rhetorical device does the author use here? a. logos b. ethos c. audience d. pathos

Which statement about essay writers is true? a. they make careful, deliberate choices in diction and structure. b. they write from the heart, allowing style to form itself as the words flow. c. they always write informally, as if addressing a friend in casual conversation. d. they craft an imaginary world of plot, character, theme, and symbolism.

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the shift in the poem’s rhythm in the last stanza signifies a resolution to the conflict that the poem is a sonnet the speaker’s confusion an irregular rhyme scheme

Iopened the door quietly, then stood in the doorway rewrite using ..ing participle