The specific purpose for yaoling’s persuasive speech is "to persuade my audience that humans have an ethical responsibility to prevent the extinction of animal species." according to your textbook, yaoling is speaking on a question of
a. fact.
b. opinion.
c. knowledge.
d. research.
e. value.

According to your textbook, Yaoling is speaking on a question of value.

Explanation: Yaoling uses the literary technique of persuasion to present ideas in order to influence the audience. Persuasion may use an argument to persuade the readers, or sometimes may persuade readers to perform a certain action.

answer by yourhope:

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what is the first step in analyzing or preparing a summary for a piece of literature?

c) describe the setting!

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the answers are:

1. dolores driscoll - b. first person minor

dolores is a minor character who happens to be driving the bus at the time of the accident. she narrates picking up each of the children and her last memory is the children being thrown around the bus.

2. billy ansel - a. first person major

billy loses his twins in the accident. he tells his own story, how he witnessed the accident and how he tried to the rescuers. he is a major character, as he is at the center of the story.

3. mitchell stephens - c. first person observer

mitchell enters the story after the accident. he is a lawyer who learns about the accident based on other characters observations. though he tells the story from a first person perspective, he is just an observer.

as for matcthing the message or lesson posted with the person who said them:

1."obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. i'm an optimist basically who acts like a pessimist. on principle. just in case." - dolores driscoll

2. "i could no longer believe even in life. . for me now the only reality was death." - billy ansel