50 POINTS Assignment
Assess an Argument
For this assignment, you will write an evaluation of “Opinion: Emoticons Aren’t Ruining Language.”
Reread the text. Then, read and answer the questions using evidence from the text to support your evaluation.
Questions
(Score for question 1: of 3 points)
1. What is the author’s argument?

(Score for question 2: of 3 points)
2. What claims does the author make?

(Score for question 3: of 4 points)
3. What reasons does the author provide to support the claims?

(Score for question 4: of 3 points)
4. How well do the author’s reasons support the claims? Use evidence from the text that shows the reasons do or do not support the claim.

(Score for question 5: of 4 points)
5. What evidence does the author use to support the reasons?

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet

In hard times by charles dickens, the scene in which the characters discuss the depiction of horses on wallpaper and flowers on carpets is the author’s way of showing the absurdity of

Which passage from kennedy's inaugural address is an example of an allusion? to our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge-to convert our good words into good deeds-ir new alliance for progress but this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, rejpicing in hope patent in tribulation it a free society cannot the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich