Comparing Argumentative Texts: Silent Spring and "A Case for Waawaatesi"

Question 1

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Y: Yet every one of these disasters has actually happened somewhere, and many real communities have already suffered a substantial number of them. A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality we all shall know.

Question 2

Which word best describes the tone used in both excerpts?

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B: passionate

Question 3

EthosLogosPathosEros

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C: Pathos

Question 4

Which phrases in the excerpt best support the author’s purpose of creating a positive image of a town? Select five options.

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A: heart of America; B: live in harmony; E: hillsides of orchards; G: blaze of color; H: prosperous farms

Question 5

presents facts and evidence to convince readers to reduce light pollutiontells a fable about how artificial light has destroyed the sleeping patterns of humansrelates a biographical story to inspire readers to get more sleepdiscusses what the future would be like without fireflies or owls

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A: presents facts and evidence to convince readers to reduce light pollution

Question 6

Read the excerpt from "A Case for Waawaatesi." Think of it this way, your ancestors navigated by the stars, and today most people won’t walk outside without a GPS. That’s a crazy loss of direction or skill at some level for sure. And while Indigenous peoples and many rural peoples can still see the stars, most of the world’s population cannot. That’s particularly an urban thing, where there’s all this light. From my farm, through the open skies, at night I can see the glow of Detroit Lakes, and

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I: It establishes their credibility.

Question 7

Read the excerpt from "A Case for Waawaatesi."It’s not just owls. It’s things like frogs, who make it their business to croak at night, particularly when mating. Artificial lights disrupt their mojo and that means less frogs and reduced populations. Sea turtle babies get confused, and migrating birds get confused when they fly with the stars.

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T: The excerpt uses examples of vulnerable animals, such as confused sea turtle babies, to make readers feel sympathetic.

Question 8

Read the excerpt from Silent Spring.It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.

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t: the dawn chorus of robins

Question 9

Read the excerpt from Silent Spring.On the farms the hens brooded, but no chicks hatched. The farmers complained that they were unable to raise any pigs—the litters were small and the young survived only a few days. The apple trees were coming into bloom but no bees droned among the blossoms, so there was no pollination and there would be no fruit.

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d: doom.

Question 10

“so attractive”“now lined with”“withered vegetation”“as though swept”

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C: “withered vegetation”

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