Read the selection below from the poem “the king sends three cats to guinevere” by marjorie allen seiffert and answer the question that follows. i send you three grey cats with gifts— (for uniformity of metaphor, since bacchus, satan, and the hangman are not contemporaneous in my mythology) i send you three grey cats with gifts, queen guinevere, to warn you, sleekly, silently to pay the forfeit. source: seiffert, marjorie allen. “the king sends three cats to guinevere.” blackcatpoems. com. black cat poems, n. d. web. 7 july 2011. what is the author’s purpose in the above passage, and how does she achieve it through her organization and choice of details?

Read the excerpt from “take the tortillas out of your poetry.” i do not believe we should have to leave out the crucial elements of our language and culture to contribute to american literature, but, unfortunately, this is a conclusion i am forced to reach. i have been writing for a quarter century, and have been a published author for eighteen years. as a writer, i was part of the chicano movement which created a new literature in this country. which type of rhetoric is used most in the excerpt to convince readers that anaya’s conclusion is accurate? an appeal based on emotion an appeal based on logic an appeal based on the author’s character an appeal based on the author’s feelings