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

Question 1

Which excerpt from Silent Spring best appeals to readers’ pathos?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

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 best describes one main difference between Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and Winona LaDuke’s "A Case for Waawaatesi"?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Carson is concerned about the destruction of the entire environment, while LaDuke is only concerned about a certain part of the environment.

Question 3

Read the excerpt from Silent Spring.In the gutters under the eaves and between the shingles of the roofs, a white granular powder still showed a few patches; some weeks before it had fallen like snow upon the roofs and the lawns, the fields and streams.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The powder is an unnatural substance.

Question 4

Which best states a comparison of the tones used in these excerpts?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Both excerpts are uplifting, but the second excerpt is more conversational in tone.

Question 5

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.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

doom.

Question 6

cautiouspeacefulfrightenedmelancholic

Revolt · Accepted Answer

peaceful

Question 7

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Revolt · Accepted Answer

presents facts and evidence to convince readers to reduce light pollution

Question 8

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.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

threatening

Question 9

best

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Silent Spring primarily utilizes emotional appeals to alert the reader of possible future danger, while the argument in “A Case for Waawaatesi” includes more use of logic and reason.

Question 10

EthosLogosPathosEros

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Pathos

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