Answer:
The line in the above excerpt from Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" that shows that Tan changes her language depending on the audience is: “The talk was about my writing, my life, and my book, The Joy Luck Club, and it was going along well enough, until I remembered one major difference that made the whole talk sound wrong. My mother was in the room.”
Explanation:
ANSWER:
The correct sentences are:
1) Friday is the deadline to submit applications; if you are interested in the job, submit your resume soon.
2) She said: "Check in the file cabinet because it might be there."
3) All six work groups’ status reports were due on April 23.
EXPLANATION:
1) semicolon are use to join two related sentence. Because the two sentence are related, semicolon can be used.
2) are used to show list of items or what someone said. The quotation marks was use to indicate what a person has said.
3) The apostrophe is used to indicate ownership. It is used in this sentence to show the ownership of the group which is plural.
It's literal meaning. The denotation of a word is usually the most basic and plain meaning of the word, ie how the word would be interpreted without any context.
<span>Satire is a genre of
literature in which individuals, corporation, government or society are ridiculed
in purpose of constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to
both particular and wider issues in society in order to correct or shape
opinions and behavior. But, satire can’t be effective in shaping behavior or
opinions if the audience is always in on the joke and never being targeted. The
effectiveness of satiric work is mirrored in sole comprehension of the targeted
group of individuals that they are wrong, and should correct their opinions and
behavior. Many satiric writers believe that satires should be medicine
disguised as candy, so it would be easier for targeted group to accept it. If
only non-targeted audience comprehend the joke (main idea of satiric work), the
satire would not be effective as they agree with author’s criticism and there
is no need for them to correct their behavior nor their opinions.</span>
The correct answer is paraphrasing.
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Instead of saying word-from-word what the person has told them and repeating it, they are saying "basically..."
