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Solzhenitsyn writes, "What can literature do against the pitiless onslaught of naked violence " What rhetorical device is he using? Question 1 options: 1) parallelism 2) rhetorical question 3) repetition 4) slogans and saws
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User: Solzhenitsyn writes, "What can literature do against the pitiless onslaught of naked violence " What rhetorical device is he using? Question 1 options: 1) parallelism 2) rhetorical question 3) repetition 4) slogans and saws

Weegy: In Nobel Lecture, Solzhenitsyn writes, "What can literature do against the pitiless onslaught of naked violence " He is using the rhetorical device of rhetorical question.
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User: The following passage is an example of which type of author’s purpose? “When Christine Riccio was a teenager growing up in New Jersey, she and her sister would upload videos to YouTube of the two of them being silly, dancing to Britney Spears’s “Piece of Me” or attempting a back flip. It wasn’t until Ms. Riccio was in college in 2010 that she “actually talked to the camera” for the first time and decided to upload a video book review of Suzanne Collins’s “The Hunger Games.” “I was reading a lot of books, and I had no one to discuss them with,” she said, explaining why she turned to the internet. “I was like, ‘I’ll be lucky if I ever get 500 subscribers over here.’” Source: LeÓn, Concepción De. “Meet the YouTube Stars Turning Viewers Into Readers.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 31 July 2018. Question 2 options: 1) Writing to inform 2) Writing to Persuade 3) Writing to explain/entertain

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“When Christine Riccio was a teenager growing up in New Jersey, sheand her sister would upload videos to YouTube of the two of them beingsilly, dancing to Britney Spears’s “Piece of Me” or attempting a backflip.
The following passage is an example of the following type of author's purpose: Writing to explain/entertain.
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