Why are shoes so expensive? every time i go to the mall to buy a new pair they are more expensive than the previous pair i purchased. it's crazy. how can shoes cost so much? when i was a kid, my mom bought me a 20-dollar pair of sneakers at the end of every summer. they certainly weren't the most beautiful-looking shoes ever made, but they were the right size. they took a lot of punishment without falling apart, and they protected my feet from rocks, broken glass, fire ants, and so on. what more could a person ask for?
now, when i buy a pair of new shoes i spend a lot more than 20 dollars. if my mom knew how much my most recent pair of shoes cost me, she would fall out of her chair, and i bought the least-expensive pair i could find! the most frustrating part—other than doing math in my head to figure out how many hours i had to work to buy the shoes—is that the shoes i spent so much money on are not as well-made as the 20-dollar sneakers i had as a kid. since i am not as active as i was when i was a kid, my new shoes will not be used as much as those old 20-dollar pairs were. despite that, the new shoes will wear out faster than the 20-dollar pairs ever did. i will be looking for a new pair in five or six months. so, compared to the 20-dollar shoes of my childhood, i just spent four times as much money on a pair of shoes that will last half as long. does this make sense to anybody? maybe i will start going barefoot.
what was the author's purpose in writing this passage?
to persuade the reader to make better decisions when he or she is buying new shoes
to persuade the reader that the old inexpensive shoes were better than the new expensive ones
to persuade the reader to stop wasting his or her money on expensive tennis shoes
to persuade the reader to boycott companies that make expensive, low-quality shoes

Pl read these paragraphs from the excerpt. every great play teaches many lessons and touches nearly all social problems. but the great play does this by indirection. every beautiful thought is a teacher; every noble line speaks to the brain and heart. beauty, proportion, melody suggest moral beauty, proportion in conduct and melody in life. in a great play the relations of the various characters, their objects, the means adopted for their accomplishment, must suggest, and in a certain sense solve or throw light on many social problems, so that the drama teaches lessons, discusses social problems and gives intellectual pleasure. the stage should not be dogmatic; neither should its object be directly to enforce a moral. the great thing for the drama to do, and the great thing it has done, and is doing, is to cultivate the imagination. this is of the utmost importance. the civilization of man depends upon the development, not only of the intellect, but of the imagination. most crimes of violence are committed by people who are destitute of imagination. people without imagination make most of the cruel and infamous creeds. they were the persecutors and destroyers of their fellow-men. by cultivating the imagination, the stage becomes one of the greatest teachers. it produces the climate in which the better feelings grow; it is the home of the ideal. all beautiful things tend to the civilization of man. the great statues plead for proportion in life, the great symphonies suggest the melody of conduct, and the great plays cultivate the heart and brain. which statement describes how ingersoll uses a literary technique in his response? a-by using symbols, ingersoll explains the role of artistic expression, which engages readers. b- by using a metaphor, ingersoll explains how artistic thoughts address social issues, which clarifies his idea. c- by using allusion, ingersoll emphasizes the continued growth of artistic expression, which is relatable to readers. d- by using alliteration, ingersoll emphasizes the role drama plays in society, which evokes strong emotion.

Synthesizing new ideas from a speaker with what one already knows about the subject to see if the information makes sense is an example of a) questioning and challenging b) identifying differences c) forming a statement d) seeing the broader context

Match each example to the correct type of conflict.