The rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is
parallelism
overstatement
ethos.
shift.
Read the excerpt from "A Latina Judge's Voice" by Hon.
Sonia Sotomayor
Let us not forget that between the appointments of Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor in 1981 and Justice Ginsburg in 1992,
eleven years passed. Similarly, between Justice Kaye's
initial appointment as an Associate Judge to the New York
Court of Appeals in 1983, and Justice Ciparick's appointment
in 1993, ten years elapsed. Almost nine years later, we are
waiting for a third appointment of a woman to both the
Supreme Court and the New York Court of Appeals and of a
second minority, male or female, preferably Hispanic, to the
Supreme Court. In 1992 when I joined the bench, there were
still two out of 13 circuit courts and about 53 out of 92 district
courts in which no women sat. At the beginning of
September of 2001, there are women sitting in all 3 circuit
courts. The First, Fifth, Eighth and Federal Circuits each
have only one female judge, however, out of a combined
total number of 48 judges. There are still nearly 37 district

Read the passage adapted from aesop’s fables. what is the theme of the story?

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

What is the first step in summarizing a plot? restating central ideas and key details eliminating minor or unimportant details connecting ideas with logical transitions identifying important words and phrase