How does the author develop the central idea across these passages? Alvarez describes how she and her mother were emotionally distant, but once she moved to Vermont, her mother was finally able to bestow praise.
Alvarez describes events in her childhood to show how the relationship between her and her mother was strained, but improved as she grew older.
Alvarez traces moments that highlight her mother’s desire for silence, culminating in the moment her mother expressed pride in her writing.
Alvarez explains the difficulty she had in going against her mother’s wishes to write about their experiences and how it was worth it in the end.

“dènouement” is another word for the of a plot.

Insert comma today we went to the store to the post office and to the park

Read these excerpts. lincoln's "gettysburg address." it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. whitman's "o captain! my captain! ". exult, o shores, and ring, o bells! but i, with mournful tread, walk the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and dead. which rhetorical appeal do both excerpts use? logos: the use of logic to convince the audience pathos: the use of emotional appeals to affect the audience’s feelings brevity: writing or speaking that is short, brief, and to the point ethos: the use of authority to persuade the audience to act the right way