Read the given paragraph below. Encircle the transitional devices used in paragraph. If you'd ask me a week ago what it would for me or feel better, I would've said knowing how Dad and Lisa and the baby, were meeting a boy my own age, and running water.

Now I have all three. I guess I must feel better.

Dad and Matt got the water running, which, with ten people and a baby in the house, is really a good thing. All that snow amd rain have finally paid off, and the sound of the toilets flushing is music to everybody's ears.

Gabriel isn't exactly baby Rachel, but i think he's screaming less. Mom says Jon was colicky also, but i don't remember. Charlie is great with the baby. I think the only time Gabriel isn't crying is when he's nursing and when Charlie sings him lullabies.

Alex may not be the teenage boy of my dreams, but he is a teenage boy. He's eighteen, and if things had stayed normal, he'd be graduating high school this month and preparing to go to Georgetown. Julie told Jon, who told Mom, who told Matt, who told me.

answer: life tends to copy things that already exists rather than taking old ides and making it into something new

explanation:

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

my best guess would be: d allusion

makes the most sense