What is the purpose of each of the following statements? Match the purpose with the correct statement from the text. directly engages reader to consider
why she is an optimist
acknowledges counterargument that
optimism ignores the facts
establishes her credibility on the topic
of optimism
A poet once said I must be happy because I
did not see the bare, cold present, but lived
in a beautiful dream.
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If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if
my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so
thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life,
—if, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony
to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
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Can anyone who has escaped such captivity,
who has felt the thrill and glory of freedom,
be a pessimist?
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