After reading the excerpt from "The Oval Portrait," answer the question below.What point of view has Poe used in this short story?

23. Which of the following would you not find in an argumentative conclusion?

For a century, we labored to settle and to subdue a continent. For half a century, we called upon unbounded invention and untiring industry to create an order ofplenty for all of our people. The challenge of the next half-century is whether we have the wisdom to use that wealth to enrich and elevate our national life, and toadvance the quality of our American civilization. Your imagination and your initiative and your indignation will determine whether we build a society whereprogress is the servant of our needs, or a society where old values and new visions are buried under unbridled growth. For in your time, we have the opportunity tomove not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

22. Marcy is writing an argumentative research essay. Which of the following things should she include to give credit to her sources?AN CIR

Many students have no choice but to work to help support their families. A four-day school week would allow students to get more hours at work, which maymake the difference between their families having enough food or going hungry.

I have heard it asserted by some, that as America has flourished under her former connection with Great Britain, the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. We may as well assert that because a child has thrived upon milk, that it is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty. But even this is admitting more than is true; for I answer roundly that America would have flourished as much, and probably much more, had no European power taken any notice of her. The commerce by which she hath enriched herself are the necessaries of life, and will always have a market while eating is the custom of Europe.

Which tone is created by the combination of the narrator's questions and the narrator's addressing the reader as "you"?

If everyone recycled every week, landfills would see a seventy-five percent reduction in waste in the next ten years.

As much hath been said of the advantages of reconciliation, which, like an agreeable dream, hath passed away and left us as we were, it is but right that we should examine the contrary side of the argument, and enquire into some of the many material injuries which these Colonies sustain, and always will sustain, by being connected with and dependent on Great Britain. To examine that connection and dependence, on the principles of nature and common sense, to see what we have to trust to, if separated, and what we are to expect, if dependent. What rhetorical device does the author use in this text?

Which background event is not introduced in this excerpt?