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"if you sit alone in the room in the firelight, you are surrounded with intimate friends" is what kind of language?

Pathos

What technique is Phelps using when he says "Most of my indoor life is spent in a room containing six thousand books"?

Sharing a personal experience

What counterargument does Phelps conceed to?

Phelps admits that having real friends is better than book friends

"Everyone SHOULD begin collecting a private library in youth". What type of language is Phelps using here?

Persuasive language

According to Phelps, a person should have what kind of bookshelf?

One that is out in the open and accessible

Phelps makes a point about books we own. What point does he make?

We treat them with an affectionate intimacy that annihilates formality

Phelps makes a point about borrowed books. What point does he make?

We need to treat them carefully

What argument is William Lyon Phelps making in "The Pleasure of Books"?

That books are amazing

Phelps makes readers feel imporant by making what point in the final paragraph?

That the authors need the readers (persuausive)

Phelps states what it is like to have borrowed books and what it is like to own your own books. What technique is he using here?

Giving both sides of the argument

Which of the following words - unsure, decisive, hostile - best describes the following quotation; "The best of mural decorations is books"?

Decisive

What claim does Phelps make to reply to his own counterargument?

That real friends come and go, but friends in books will always be there