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1. To make the reader wonder who is “their” and why have their bones been lost? This effect makes his topic slightly more interesting now that you know a bit of what he’s going to talk about before he gives his reason’s why. Analysis
2. An “odd juxtapositions” is apparent when Eiseley talks about technology and robots and then some birds he remembers. Hopefully its affect is to later show how these two intertwine. Rhetorical Strategies
3. They help create an unbiased tone because Eiseley isn’t an expert in robotics but his topic includes them. Tone evaluation
4. To show how closely related machine and human can be. Relationship
5. This pattern of development is effective because it notes how science, but yet the simple things that take place in nature are still more complicated and interesting to Eisleley. Analysis
6. Makes him seem more animal like with words like slithered and seized because snakes slither and seize their prey. Diction

8.It is an interesting shift and by doing this he’s telling us how nature is kind of like the hawks, in that its, “beyond the eyes of men” and that’s how Eiseley feels about nature because he thinks people are too focused with technology and don’t notice the complicated and yet simple state of nature. Synthesis

9. For logos Eiseley talked about advancing technology and for pathos spoke passionately about birds and how he feels he’d rather believe in them above all machines. Being a scientist himself he has some authority and his ethos is taking just as seriously as his facts. All three work together by the birds showing how they are above technology and what it has to offer. Rhetorical strategies