Rhetorical Modes Review

After having studied all of the facts, Ryan decided that in spite of its higher initial cost, the Xanadu is the better car to buy than its competitor, the Zeng. The Zeng is large and powerful -- 390 horses to pull it along. It sells for somewhere around $18,500, and its maintenance cost averages about $450 a year. However, it has a very low resale value. A year old Zeng will bring in more than $12,000. Apparently no one wants a used Zeng. On the other hand, the Xanadu seems a far superior buy. It is about the same size as the Zeng, but it has a 440 horsepower motor. New it sells for just under $20,000, but its yearly maintenance averages less than $200. And in regard to resale, the Xanadu depreciates only about $2000 a year.

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• Communication starts with the source who encodes (puts thoughts and ideas into a symbol system). Once an idea is encoded, it becomes a message. This message is then transmitted to a receiver who decodes it (translates the message code into signals so the brain can process). Next, the receiver interprets the message; that is, he assigns meaning to the message that was encoded. In doing so, the receiver often adds to the message to go beyond what was said. The final step is feedback, which is a response from the receiver as to how the message has been acknowledged.

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• A sonnet is a poem of Italian origin with rigid requirements regarding length, structure, and organization. All sonnets have fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter. The Italian or Petrarchan sonnet is divided into an octave rhyming abbaabba and a sestet rhyming cdecde, cdcdcd or cdccdc. The English or Shakespearean sonnet is divided into three quatrains rhyming abab cdcd efef with a concluding heroic couplet.

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Removed from its skull and weighed, a human brain tops the scale at approximately three pounds. Its appearance is roughly walnut-like: its color is pinkish grey on the outside, yellowish-white within. Like all organs, the brain has evolved over millions of years. Its structure reflects all the stages through which it has passed.

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• According to transactional analysis, we all assume various psychological positions which determine how we relate to others. There are four types of psychological positions which we may hold. Type One is called “I’m OK, you’re OK.” People of this type feel that they are okay and that others are okay. These people tend to be very competent and have constructive relationships with other people. They also get along with other people because they have a high esteem for themselves and others. Type Two is called “I’m OK, you’re not OK.” People who feel that they are okay but others are not, act superior, aloof, arrogant, and above others with whom they have relationships. Type Three is named “I’m not OK, you’re OK.” People, who feel that they are not okay but that others are okay, often think they are inferior and frequently manifest depressed outlooks toward life. These people try to withdraw from others, tend to be loners, and feel discouraged in their abilities to cope with people. The final category, Type Four, is called “I’m not OK, you’re not OK either.” People, who feel that they are not okay and that no one else is either, tend to have a hopeless or futile outlook on life. These people really feel that they cannot get anywhere with other people, and because of this, they give up and have quite impoverished relationships with others.

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Americans are proud of their technological advances, but technology often comes at a price. Consider the cell phone, for example. While it allows us to stay in touch at all times, it also demands our attention at inappropriate times and may even cause a dangerous situation. A phone conversation while driving at seventy-five miles is not conducive to attention to the road.

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• For three reasons, eating too little fat is probably a major cause of overweight. First, many seemingly fat persons are only waterlogged; an adequate diet including salad dressing daily causes them to lose pounds. Second, it has been proven by what is know as the respiratory quotient that when the essential fatty acids are insufficiently supplied, the body changes sugar to fat much more rapidly than is normal. The quick change makes the blood sugar plunge downward, causing one to feel starved; the chances are that one overeats and gains weight. Third, fats are more satisfying than are other foods. If one foregoes eating one hundred calories of fat per meal, one usually becomes so hungry that he eats five hundred calories of starch or sugar simply because he cannot resist them: unwanted pounds creep on.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

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Nic is emailing from college on the evening before he arrives home for summer vacation. Jasper and Daisy, our eight- and five-year-olds, are sitting at the kitchen table cutting, pasting and coloring notes and welcome-home banners for his homecoming. They have not seen their big brother for six months.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

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