What's an author's purpose?
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The author's purpose is to persuade.

Explanation:

There are three general purposes a person can have when writing or speaking: to persuade/motivate, to inform, or to entertain. Propaganda and advertising have the purpose of persuading people to do something. Usually, advertising focuses on making people buy a certain product. For that reason, they describe the product, its characteristics and features, and make it seem as if it is a nice thing to have - something that will make your life easier and happier. That is what the author does when describing the chopper. This product is fast - vegetables are cut in 30 seconds - and cheap - $29.95. At the end, we even have the use of imperative - "Order yours today!" The purpose here is clearly to persuade people to buy this product.

this quote could be referring to the death penalty. it's questioning the morality of sentencing murderers to death as a punishment, because it seems hypocritical. this quote seems to be arguing for non-lethal punishment for killers.

d. murder of a son and cooking the son for a feast

procne murdered her son and served him to tereus, her husband and her son's father. she did this out of revenge. tereus raped her sister, philomela, and cut her tongue out to keep her from talking. philomela managed to communicate it to procne and procne sought revenge.

tantalus murdered his son and fed him to the gods because he was angry with the gods. the gods punished him by putting him in a pool of water that evaporates when he tries to drink and having fruit hang just out of his reach.