Why did Poe get kicked out of West Point Military School?

On January 28, 1831, a court-martial tried a young cadet at the U.S. Military Academy on charges of gross neglect of duty and disobedience of orders. Sergeant Major Edgar Allan Poe was found guilty of both charges and discharged from the service of the United States only six months after he had arrived at the academy.

The correct answer is: 4 Anaya structures his excerpt as a rhetorical appeal, while Nye structures her excerpt as an anecdote.

Indeed, Anaya’s excerpt is a mode of persuasion that uses figurative language and Mexican Spanish words in order to provoke an emotional response from the reader by the use of pathos. This is confirmed by the explicit response of the metaphor on tortillas, that taking them out of the poetry is akin to removing the poetry’s soul.

Nye’s excerpt on the other hand, uses an anecdote, an account of a particular event and its figurative symbolism to convey a particular conclusion. Indeed, there is a hint of irony in the description that immediately follows the dialogue. The immediate landscape is used to show the “heritage-deprived” person that he actually does have a heritage. In other words, he does not need to be a hyphenated American in order to have a heritage because it is right there “dangling over his head”.

The symbolism of the “tall American tree” is used to show how the speaker of these lines that America has its own heritage, which lies in its history, its melting pot and its territory and he cannot even see it.