- Swollen - There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two <u>bulbous</u> eyes stare at you upside down.
"Bulbous" mean something fat, round, or bulging, similar to "Swollen" which is the state of being larger or rounder in size of what something normally is.
- Disappointing - "Better in body perhaps — " I began, and stopped short, for he sat up straight and looked at me with such a stern, <u>reproachful</u> look that I could not say another word.
Reproachful is an adjective and it's used when something/someone expresses disapproval or disappointment.
- Markedly noticeable - But in the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so—I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure that seems to skulk; lie in wait about behind that silly and <u>conspicuous</u> front design.
Something conspicuous is something obvious to the eye or mind (it easily catches people's attention), something markedly noticeable.
- Bad quality - Looked at in one way each breadth stands alone, the bloated curves and flourishes—a kind of "<u>debased</u> Romanesque" with delirium tremens—go waddling up and down in isolated columns of fatuity.
Debased means degraded, reduced in quality or value.
Answer:
In the plot of “Cruel Tribute,” the events that are a result of King Minos’s actions are: Athens agrees to pay the tribute, young people participate in a lottery, and Theseus fights the Minotaur. "The Cult Tribute" is the name of Chapter 16 in the book "Old Greek Stories," written by James Baldwin.
Explanation:
Answer:
"To persuade my audience to volunteer regularly in their community and to join the Peace Corps after college" is a poorly phrased specific purpose statement for a classroom speech because it <u>contains more than one specific idea.</u>
Explanation:
In speech writing, we must determine both the general and the specific purpose of our speech before even commencing to write it. A speech can have three types of general purpose: to inform, to persuade/motivate, and to entertain. After deciding on that, <u>we must move on to our specific purpose by taking into consideration our audience, the topic we wish to convey, why we wish to convey it, how we wish etc. Even though we should take all those things into consideration, </u><u>the specific purpose statement should be concise and focus on one idea</u><u>. If you double up on ideas, you are probably having a hard time truly deciding what your speech is about. Making a speech too broad is an almost sure way to not get the attention and the results desired.</u>
That is the mistake in the statement, "To persuade my audience to volunteer regularly in their community and to join the Peace Corps after college." The speaker's general purpose is clearly to persuade. But it would be best if he focused on one of those two specific ideas. His speech will have better chances to accomplish its purpose. For instance, an improved option would be simply:
- To persuade my audience to volunteer regularly in their community.
