Girl, you didn't just say that
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100
Identify the syntax and its purpose in paragraph 12.
"We met just, ummmm, just she knew my cousin. And kind of saw me there so. Just kind of regular." Purpose?
100
What is the purpose of this sarcasm?
"Maybe in an era when “dating” seems to mean “send texts about whether to get together later,” this counts as a fulfilling relationship." Purpose?
100
Identify the logos (Logical Appeal) and its purpose in paragraph 9.
"But the star linebacker — who reportedly saw other flesh-and-blood girls on campus — didn't seem to feel this special romance was lacking anything simply because it had no three-dimensional aspects." Purpose?
100
Identify the pathos (emotional appeal) and its purpose in paragraph 3.
'"Babe, if anything happens to me, you promise that you’ll stay there and you’ll play and you’ll honor me through the way you play,” she told him when she was critically injured in a car crash, fell into a coma and then emerged to learn she had leukemia. When she was conscious, she devoted much of her time to writing inspirational letters to Te’o before each game." Purpose?
100
Identify the juxtaposition and its purpose in paragraph 15.
"This all occurred a couple of years after the Notre Dame team was involved in a genuine tragedy when a freshman from a neighboring girls’ college reported she had been sexually assaulted by a football player... the girl died from an overdose of medication." Purpose?
200
Identify the purpose of the syntax in paragraph 16
"Game's over. Notre Dame loses." Purpose?
200
What is the purpose of the sarcasm in paragraph 13?
"But nobody at Notre Dame seems to have paid enough attention to figure out that the girl at the center of their winning-season story existed in the same universe as the Little Mermaid." Purpose?
200
Identify the logos and its purpose in paragraph 12.
"If you listened to the story while sitting next to Te’o on a bus, you would have warned him not to tell a national TV audience about this girlfriend until he got some proof she actually existed." Purpose?
200
Identify the anaphora and its purpose in paragraph 15.
"The school did not order up an outside investigation. In fact, there appeared to be no investigation at all." Purpose?
200
Identify the irony in paragraph 15 and its purpose.
"Writing this week in The Washington Post, Melinda Henneberger, a Notre Dame graduate, noted that “my alma mater held the kind of emotional news conference for the fake dead girl they never held for the real one, Lizzy Seeberg.'" Purpose?
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