Which sentences feature a first-person point of view? check all that apply.

my friend likes cars with a lot of horsepower, but i prefer good gas mileage.

she couldn’t wait to purchase the latest accessories for her video game console.

with the amount of travel he’d been doing, he’d begun to feel like a nomad.

i spent last night studying for the geometry test we’re taking in fifth period.

although his organization process was a bit haphazard, i could follow it.

A) My friend likes cars with a lot of horsepower, but I prefer good gas mileage, D) I spent last night studying for the geometry test we’re taking in fifth period, and E) Although his organization process was a bit haphazard, I could follow it.

Explanation: Point of view refers to who is telling or narrating a story. A story can be told in three different ways: first person, second person, and third person. Writers use point of view to express the personal emotions of either themselves or their characters. We can identify the first-person point of view, by the use of the pronouns "I" and "we" and words like "my," "myself," etc. From the given options, the ones that feature a first-person point of view, are the corresponding to options A, D, and E.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)