1. refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this passage. why does the author use compare and contrast in "here is new york"? to emphasize that new york is meant only for a specific type of person to draw attention to the different types of new yorkers and how they define the city to create a platform where the writer can argue the pros and cons of commuting to the city to illustrate how new york is changing and to express how it should continue to change in the future

Q: Why does the author use compare and contrast in "Here Is New York"?

A: to draw attention to the different types of New Yorkers and how they define the city

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Q: What effect does imagery have on the meaning of "Here Is New York" by E.B. White?

"And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference...

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A: The vivid imagery describes the vitality of the city and the passion that unifies those who make New York their home.

Q: Which quotations from "Here Is New York" develop the author's viewpoint that commuters do not truly experience New York City?

Select each correct

A: "Except in rare cases, the man who lives in Mamaroneck or Little Neck or Teaneck, and works in New York, discovers nothing much about the city except the time of arrival and departure of trains and buses, and the path to a quick lunch."

and

"...he has never come suddenly on anything at all in New York as a loiterer, because he has had no time between trains."

Q: Why did Anna Quindlen write "A Quilt of a Country"?

A: to show that despite its differences, America is still a country that unites in times of strife

Q: How does Anna Quindlen use antithesis to advance her purpose in "A Quilt of a Country"?

A: It calls attention to the opposing forces that define America.

Q: How does the author uses personification in "Here Is New York" to advance his viewpoint?

A: It makes the city come alive for the reader and helps readers to see New York as the author does.

Q: Which quotations from "A Quilt of a Country" develop the author's viewpoint that America's diversity is what unifies it?

Select each correct answer.

A: "These are the representatives of a mongrel nation that somehow, at times like this, has one spirit."

and

"That's because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. Out of many, one. That is the ideal."

Q: Which quotation most accurately explains why Anna Quindlen wrote "A Quilt of a Country"?

A: "Perhaps they understand it at this moment, when enormous tragedy, as it so often does, demands a time of reflection on enormous blessings."

Q: How does Anna Quindlen use paradox to advance her purpose in "A Quilt of a Country"?

A: By calling attention to the contrasting ideas that America was founded upon, the writer reinforces her main idea.

Q: Which quotations from "Here Is New York" develop the author's viewpoint that commuters do not truly experience New York City?

Select each correct answer.

A: "The commuter dies with tremendous mileage to his credit, but he is no rover."

and

"Or they may work in a midtown office and may let a whole year swing round without sighting Governors Island from the sea wall."

Q: How does the paradox of "all the failures" and "spectacularly successful" advance Anna Quindlen's purpose in this excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country"?

"It is difficult to know how to convince them that this amounts to "crown thy good with brotherhood," that amid all the failures is something spectacularly successful.

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A: It emphasizes that America has been successful in finding unity.

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1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)