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Read the excerpt from “Speaking Arabic.”
At a neighborhood fair in Texas, somewhere between the German Oom-pah Sausage Stand and the Mexican Gorditas booth, I overheard a young man say to his friend, “I wish I had a heritage. Sometimes I feel—so lonely for one.” And the tall American trees were dangling their thick branches right down over his head.
Which best explains how Nye’s text structure helps establish her voice in the excerpt?
a) Nye relates a story about something she heard to emphasize the point she wants to make about heritage.
b) Nye compares her experience to a stranger’s experience to express her ideas about the importance of heritage.
c) Nye lists food booths at a neighborhood fair in Texas to make a statement about diverse foods in America.
d) Nye uses a cause-and-effect format to show how heritage can limit a person’s cultural diversity.
Answer:
a) Nye relates a story about something she heard to emphasize the point she wants to make about heritage.
Explanation:
In "Speaking Arabic", author Naomi Shihab Nye develops the theme of heritage. As we can see, she mentions something she overheard a man say to do so. This American man does not understand and, for that reason, does not value his own heritage. He says he wishes he had a heritage, not being able to look around and realize how diverse his country is. She goes ahead to mention the trees to show how heritage is all around him, how he would certainly be able to see it if he truly wanted to.
The correct matches are as follows:
1. FREE WRITING: Writing down first thoughts on a topic in a timed session, without pausing to check for relevance or grammar.
Brain storming is the process by which creative ideas and solutions are generated via intensive group discussion. There are lots of techniques that can be used during brain storming sessions and three of them are pre writing, clustering and three perspectives.
Free writing is a pre-writing method that involves continuous writing of thoughts and ideas for a set period of time without any regard for spelling, grammar, logical procession, punctuation, or structure; during this time one allow his thoughts to flow freely. Free writing produces the raw materials that are used for developing usable ideas.
Pre writing is very useful in helping one to put down ideas that one has not considered previously.
2. CLUSTERING: Connecting ideas for a topic using different shapes and color-coding to identify how the ideas are related.
Clustering is another technique that is used during brain storming session. It involves writing down keywords or phrases that are relevant to one’s topic of interest and using drawn lines to identify the connections that exist among them. This method allows one to brainstorm in a visual manner.
3. THREE PERSPECTIVES: Describing the topic, tracing its history, and examining its connections with related topics.
Three perspectives is another method that is used during brain storming session. Considering a thing from three different sides help one to see it more completely and clearly. This method involves answering questions for each of the three perspectives considered and then looking for relationship or differences that exist among them. To do this, one has to describe the topic in detail, trace the history of the topic and find out how the topic relate to others.
The correct answer should be
<span>A Ogilvy’s curiosity tends to overcome his better judgment.
He is curious about it and while anyone else would probably avoid the place or be scared of going near the meteorite, Ogilvy doesn't care about that and wants to know what it looks like and what it is. It goes for the worse when he realizes what is actually happening.</span>
<span>When constructing an argument, one thing
writers do is concede a point. This
technique demonstrates to readers that the author considered both sides of the
argument and that the argument being presented is not entirely one sided. Thus, what the author is doing here is conceding
the point that tablets can be cost prohibitive.
However, when conceding a point, it is best to immediately follow it up
with a rebuttal. In this particular
instance, what the author should do is include information on cost and perhaps
try to undermine the point being conceded by mentioning the cost of text books,
which can, too, be quite pricey and cannot be updated as easily as information
on a tablet. </span>
Answer:
1. argument
2.syllogism
3. socrates
Explanation: I just did and these were the correct answers.
