Which statement best explains how roosevelt uses rhetoric to advance the purpose identified in question 2?
a. he uses repetition, employing the phrase "last night" several times, to stress the number of coordinated attacks carried out by the japanese.
b. he uses repetition, employing the word "attack" over and over, to inspire americans to join the armed forces and aggressively take on the enemy.
c. he uses false equivalency, likening the attack on pearl harbor to the attack on guam, to make japan seem more dangerous than it really is.
d. he uses false equivalency, likening the japanese to the nazis, to underscore the danger japan poses to american.

since it is asking for her reaction to elnora's trouble at school you can rule out any answers with a positive response (b). then you can rule out (d), this is because it does not show the mother's reaction but the daughter's response. that leaves you with two options (a) and (c), by looking at the options you can rule out (c) because it isn't referring back to elnora's issues at school.

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."

a question like this requires the excerpt to be included in order to answer the question.

c. to understand which information will best persuade your readers. (apex) correct answer.