Read the excerpt from william faulkner's nobel prize acceptance speech. . the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed—love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. which best describes the meaning of the term “universal truths”? childhood ideals that are forgotten as people mature the artistic integrity of a dedicated writer or poet feelings and ideas that can be understood by everyone the reality that the cold war will lead to human destruction

feelings and ideas that can be understood by everyone

Explanation:

Universal truths or universal topics, are topics or issues that are closely related to the human existence, and because of that every human can understand and relate to, life, all humans that can read are alive, honor, all societies deal with honor, love, every human has the need and right to love and to be loved, so universal truths are topics that every human can relate to.

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)