Rewrite the following sentences using the following grammatical structures: apposition, participial clause, nominative absolute clause. 1. the play was written shortly before the outbreak of the french revolution, and it reflects some of the central preoccupations of the age. 2. there are many remarkable features of english life, and love of tradition is one of them. 3. man is conscious of his own existence and he tries to discover as much about himself as possible. 4. he studied in paris from 1910 to 1913 and he returned to london in 1914. 5. grass was a writer of many abilities, and he has never failed to be entertaining and informative.

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