Answer:
Sarcasm indeed can be confusing.
Explanation:
Sarcasm indeed can be confusing to some extent. Sarcasm can be understood as "indirect criticism", what you say manifest exactly the oposite of what you really mean with the comment.
Sarcasm cannot be prevented, it is a very "human" activity due to the high symbolism, and complexities of human interaction, sarcasm is expected to exist in one way or another.
Yes, the continuing comments in the U.S about fake news may have something to do with the country's growingly "autistic" impatience with sarcasm and criticism.
Answer:
Either you or Miguel is leading the group.
Explanation:
When using compound conjunctions - either... or and neither... nor - we tend to feel like using a plural verb, which may be incorrect. Most of the time, the right way to conjugate a verb in sentences with compound conjunctions is in the singular.
<u>Something else that can be confusing in the sentence we are analyzing here is the fact that "either" is followed by "you". As we know, the right verb form for "you" is "are". However, even in this case, we should go with the form "is" because "Miguel" is the closest noun to the verb. Therefore, the correct answer is</u>:
Either you or Miguel is leading the group.
D. To provide the reader with concrete details or information.
Allusion is a technique where expressions that have an indirect or passing reference is used to provide more meaning. The ideas are called to mind without being explicit. Authors use allusions to prompt deeper understanding by relating ideas.
Answer:
A) From a Jewish survivor's perspective.
Explanation:
In <em>All Rivers Run to the Sea</em>, Elie Wiesel tells us about his own experience under Nazis oppression and gruesome treatment of the Jews. He is a Jew, a writer and a survivor of the Holocaust, so in his work, we can <em>experience </em>the very essence of what was going there. Though his works made him famous, he said that those honors are a burden because he would rather like that his sister Tsiporah stayed alive, that Holocaust did not happen and book left unwritten.
Artie Spiegelman used his father Vladek`s vivid memories for writing <em>Maus. </em>He made hours and hours of interviews which included prewar, war and after war period. Vladek with his first wife Anja were first sent into segregated neighborhoods (ghettos) and then going through several Nazi camps. They tried to escape several times, but always unsuccessfully. In that time they had a young son Richie who they sent to a different ghetto to be with his aunt, but after she found out about sending them to the camp, she pois oned her children, Richie and herself. After the war, Anja was deeply disturbed and she committed sui cide. Vladek continued his life, but haunted by terrible past.
Thesis statement which best addresses this assignment is A. Our county is one of five counties in the state deciding whether or not to levy a meal tax on its citizens.
As the thesis statement suggests that the meal tax is proposed hence, it is still on deciding process whether to levy meal tax or not. In contrary other sentences asserts the implication of meal tax. As a result, the meal tax hasn't been levied yet, being on a deciding factor the thesis statements asks for the opinion on the proposed meal in for or against.
