The lines from Bob Kaufman's
"Unanimity Has Been Achieved, Not a Dot Less for Its Accidentalness"
conveys that Kaufman sees mental hospitals and institutionalization as
inhumane, ineffective, and uncaring. The surgeons only thinks about how well equipped
they are with their machines and they are excited to use this to people with
mental illness without caring the fact that it might be harmful to them.
cite.. this is the correct use of this word for the sentence to be correct.
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston, describes somewhat a medical panic into the story due to a new virus that set out to wipe out humanity. It narrates the procedures that doctors and researchers go through in search for the cure. He also describes how dedicated these professionals are, in order to escape death.
1. frenetic
2. egregious
3. piercing
4. shabby
The correct answer is imagery.
Figurative language is a simile or metaphor -- neither is used here. An allusion is a reference to a well-known person, place, or thing; an allusion is not used here. Parallelism is using similar grammatical structures and does not appear here.
Imagery is a description that appeals to any of the five senses, but especially the visual sense. In this passage, Baldwin is clearly describing the slap (which we can see and hear in our mind) of the child, the pain which reverberates through heaven -- we can visualize this pain reaching out into heaven and embedding itself in the universe.
Due to the visual power of these words, the correct answer is C.
