<u>Answer:</u>
<em>(C) The author bias is that Tour De France is the toughest race in the world. </em>
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<u>Explanation:</u>
For such a tough race one must have the sufficient physical and the mental strength to win the race. Thus, it is important to check the endurance and the strength of the cyclists to recognise whether they deserve to participate in the race or not. There are various challenges in the competition of Tour De France and thus they check the mental and the physical ability of the participants at its best.
<u>Answer</u>:
Tthe sentence which can be revised to eliminate redundancies is
B: Juan was costumed in disguise when he entered the room.
<u>Explanation</u>:
Redundancy in a sentence refers to same data being used more than once in a sentence just by using a different word. It doesn’t make a sentence grammatically wrong, but more than one similar word seems unnecessary. They make the writing weak and not appealing. So, redundancy should be avoided while writing.
In the given sentences, Juan was costumed in disguise when he entered the room has redundancy. “In disguise” means when one is dressed differently or has made a different appearance. So, given sentence can be written as “Juan was disguised when he entered the room”. Writing “costumed in disguise” makes the sentence redundant.
In literature, the term tone refers to the writer's attitude or feelings about the subject matter as well as towards the audience. Such tone is created by authors through the use of literary elements, such as diction( defined as word choice), syntax ( or the grammatical arrangement of words), imagery ( referred to the vivid appeals to the senses); details (related with facts that are either included or omitted) and figurative language (which refers to the comparison with apparently unrelated things.
In the particular segment.. “He was tall, gaunt, with a pale skin and sunken eyes the color of a kingfisher's wing, neither blue nor green...” details and figurative languages seem to be used by the author as literary elements to express his/her attitude towards Kenny, which could be categorized as indifferent
