To be considered for the practice A.P. multiple choice quiz over Scott Russell Sander’s “The Inheritance of Tools”

• What is the allusion in paragraph twenty-five?  To what is Sanders alluding?

• What influence does this allusion have upon the piece and the reader?  What is accomplished through use of this allusion?

• What is the tone of the speaker in the sixteenth paragraph?

• List and consider all literary and rhetorical strategies present in paragraphs twelve through fourteen.

• What impression of the father is the reader given?  What attitude is conveyed through the father’s voice presented by Sanders?

• What parallelism is presented in paragraph twenty-five?  What relationship is implied through this parallelism?

• What does the final simile in paragraph four insinuate?

• What literary and rhetorical strategies are present in the first paragraph?

• What literary and rhetorical strategies are present in the second paragraph?

•  In the tenth paragraph Sanders uses the term “lacerate.”  What idea is he indicating through his use of this word?

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