What is the main goal of persuasive texts?
a. to sway the reader’s opinion using various rhetorical techniques
b. to inform the public about important events or concepts
c. to discuss a complex issue and present multiple opposing arguments
d. to encourage readers to question their preexisting assumptions

3. of all the characters highlighted in the works included in this unit, which one did you relate to or identify with the most in terms of his or her struggles and conflicts? why? what was it about this character that made him or her affect you as he or she did? be sure to point to specific examples from the work to support your response.

Jamal english, mandarin and a bit of arabic. a. speaks b. speak c. speaking d. is speaking

Some one drawing water and my theater placed my hand under the spout. as the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water , first slowly , then rapidly . i stood still ,my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers . suddenly i felt misty consciousness as of soothing forgotten --a thrill of returning thought and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me this passage from the stoyof my life is an wxample of which element of plotclimax action