Read the passage from "optimism.”

a poet once said i must be happy because i did not see the bare, cold present, but lived in a beautiful dream. i do live in a beautiful dream; but that dream is the actual, the present,—not cold, but warm; not bare, but furnished with a thousand blessings. the very evil which the poet supposed would be a cruel disillusionment is necessary to the fullest knowledge of joy.

keller achieves her purpose of convincing the audience by using a

a. fact.
b. quotation.
c. rebuttal.
d. statistic.

B. quotation, she quotes what the poet says to help ease into her point.

The correct answer is option B. "quotation".

Explanation:

The passage from the essay "Optimism" by Helen Keller shown in the question, states that in order to achieve fullest knowledge of joy is necessary to accept the cruel disillusionment of reality. The author uses a phrase from a poet to support her argument, therefore she uses a quotation to convince the audience that her idea is correct.

from: "the tragedy of julius caesar by william shakespeare: act 1 "

the correct answer is:

act 1 opens with the forum in celebration and ends with it in chaos.

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)