Which of the following statements about contractions is true? A. You should usually omit contractions from academic writing.
OB. The apostrophes in a contraction stand for the missing consonants.
O C. Contractions should never be used in either formal or informal writing,
O D. Contractions are never grammatically correct.

Fill in the table with definitions of the literary techniques and concepts that occur in beowulf.

Which of these events inspired many of stephen crane’s writings, including the story “an episode of war”?

Read these excerpts. lincoln's "gettysburg address." it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. whitman's "o captain! my captain! ". exult, o shores, and ring, o bells! but i, with mournful tread, walk the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and dead. which rhetorical appeal do both excerpts use? logos: the use of logic to convince the audience pathos: the use of emotional appeals to affect the audience’s feelings brevity: writing or speaking that is short, brief, and to the point ethos: the use of authority to persuade the audience to act the right way