4. which statement from the passage represents an appeal to reason? (1 point) one study estimates that some 30 million adult americans are "functionally illiterate". . when before has virtually an entire nation surrendered itself wholesale to a medium for selling? i fear that the effects on our habits of mind, our language, our tolerance for effort, and our appetite for complexity are only dimly perceived. if i am wrong, we will have done no harm to look at the issue skeptically and critically, to consider how we should be resisting it. 5. how does the author appeal to reason in the answer to the previous question? (1 point) through history through data through experts through media events

Through data

Explanation:

In this case the author appeals to logic or reason once he presents one study offering data to the reader, and in this way providing credible information to support his idea. This is a rhetorical strategy used by the author in order to connect the reader to his way of thinking creating a link with his audience with the idea to lead him to a final conclusion.

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1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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