Luxury Shopping, from the Other Side of the Register

What are the purpose and effect of the rhetorical strategies Machado employs in her conclusion?

• To show the reader that people who work in retail are treated the same and understand what other retail workers are going through

• To show that retail workers should be treated with more respect

• To display the reality of what can happen during Black Friday

• To argue that wealthy people are better than workers

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The author contrasts middle class and the wealthy in order to ...

• convince the audience that living a wealthy life is better

• to explain how it feels to live in that environment

• show how money affects humans brain's

• convince for a higher minimum wage for their people

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Which of the following best identifies the meaning of "I am not, and have never been, in poverty, but I have been varying shades of poor" (para.4)

• The author has never been rich or has enough money to spend without care

• The author was homeless before but got back on her feet after getting a job

• The author chose to be in poverty to know what it is like

• The author is secretly rich but chooses to live in middle class to be able to relate with her audience

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What is the primary focus of paragraph 7 and 8?

• The way money affects the human brain

• That people who have money are more caring for others

• You need to have money in order to live a happy life

• Everyone views money differently

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The tone of the text is....

• Colloquial

• Critical

• Wretched

• Pessimistic

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