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What type of example is used?
Personal Experience
What type of example is this passage using
1. "There were 1100 homicides last year in L.A. proper…"
2. "Automatically throw people in jail for 25 years after their third felony, even if they’ve only stolen an orange
3. "I wasn’t a felon, drug addict, or psychotic mass murderer. And if I was, would I tell him?"
1. Statistical
2. Hypothetical
3. No example
How does this example say about the sister in this essay?
"What really stood out was the TV. It had been moved some 15 feet away from the sofa, so you would need binoculars to see the weather map. I moved closer, turned it on. "Get back," my sister cried, "you're in the electromagnetic field."
It shows how worried she was about keeping her child safe and how even something we may not think so much about is changed in a "drastic" way in order to keep people safe.
How do you know what type of example is used? What evidence is used in text?
Spruce beer, which I could never stomach, but the twigs boiling on the stove smelled so good."(9)
What type of example does Say or Hi or Die use?
Personal Experience
What form of example is this?
"If I collide with a small impart, my hood might crunch, but I could probably hop out and play tennis."
Hypothetical Situation
What can you infer from this passage about Guy's living situation?
"She gave us youngsters a small handful each. We spent a long time admiring this new exotic stuff and remarking on how much it looked like emmets' eggs. We ate it one grain at a time as if it were candy, and because of the novelty didn't notice the remarkable lack of taste." (3)
Not well off, masks taste because of the idea of it being rich candy
Why is this passage a good example?
"I woke up at 2 a.m. yesterday in truly L.A. style, with a helicopter circling my street and a spotlight scouring the buses."
Provides detail to make it easy to visualize and follow the narrative
What form of example is this?
"In fact, during the past decade accidental deaths have plummeted."
Statistics