1. Prose uses her position of being a mother, and a book reader To help establish ethos. Along with this, she also gives credibility by showing how she got her information for the essay.
3. Prose believes that high school literature will only turn students off to reading as a whole. She also believes that high school is where "literary taste" is born.
5. She assumes that the audience is familiar with these works, because they were usually assigned for reading sometime during high school. The way that Prose presents the info, using key moments and characters from the books, makes it important that the reader be familiar with them.
6. I honestly have not read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. However, Prose makes it seem that Angelou butchered her book completely, when later in the essay she describes the work as mediocre. Because of this I'd have to say that it's a bit too extreme. She also compares getting her data to getting FBI files.
7. Her purpose in piling the rhetorical questions is to show the audience the problems with High School reading all in one go. It gets the message across very quickly, in a way that the reader is going to follow.
8. Prose would most likely not strengthen her arguments with interviews. Students wouldn't be experienced enough in reading to make educated statements about high school reading, and teachers would likely defend this novels in a way that goes against what she believes.
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10. She gives a few suggestions for how to improve the situation. However, she doesn't fully give a comprehensive way to fix it. Because of this, her argument is weakened in that she is just as helpful as someone who is supportive of the current works. Neither are really giving a way to improve it.
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