Read this excerpt from "The All-American Slurp."
What story element does the author develop in this
excerpt?
The lady harpist stopped playing to take a rest. And in the
silence, our family's consumption of soup suddenly seemed
unnaturally loud. You know how it sounds on a rocky beach
when the tide goes out and the water drains from all those
little pools? They go shloop, shloop, shloop. That was the
Lin family, eating soup.
plot details about the Lins' dining experience
setting details about the French restaurant
conflict between family members
characterization of the harpist

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