"Against nature" 10.Lines 147–156: What examples of rhetorical questions are in these lines? What effect do these rhetorical questions produce? 11.Lines 160–178: How does the quotation from Wilde support Oates’s argument?

12.Lines 187–198: Summarize the idea Thoreau expresses. Is Oates convinced by Thoreau’s argument? Explain, citing text evidence to support your answer.

13.Lines 194–197: Consider Oates’s tone in these lines. How does the tone differ in the two sentences? What effect does her tone have on the essay?

14.Lines 229–239: Analyze the analogy. How is Oates’s “mystical” vision similar to nature writing? Why does she include this example at this point in the essay?

15.Lines 252–253: Why, at the end of her essay, does Oates refer to Johnson’s quote from the epigraph?