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[Jawaban] Which of the following sentences contains a dangling modifier? A. Flapping its wings, the baby bird readied itself to jump from the nest. B. Before leaving the house, Micah made sure he had his wallet and keys. C. Running down the street, the car was narrowly missed by the pedestrian. D. Listening carefully to the instructions, Rae began folding the paper into the shape of a crane.

[Jawaban] Language is most objective when based upon A. opinion. B. beliefs. C. thoughts. D. evidence.

[Jawaban] Which sentence from the excerpt best supports the theme of overreliance on technology? "Why, you'd go hungry tomorrow if something went wrong in your kitchen. You wouldn't know how to cook an egg." "But we'll make good children out of bad in a year, wait and see." "You can feel it coming out of the sky. Feel that sun. George, you'll have to change your life." "Where before they had a Santa Claus, now they have a Scrooge. Children prefer Santa."

[Jawaban] The film noir male protagonist is often a victim of his own gullibility and libido (sexual desire). A. True B. False

[Jawaban] Three-year-old Zelda asks questions like, "Where Daddy is going?" and "What Mommy is doing?" This indicates that she has yet to learn the auxiliary-inversion rule and how to apply the rules of A. pragmatics. B. morphology. C. syntax. D. phonology.

[Jawaban] When your boss says "let's get together tomorrow," it means something different than when your romantic partner says the same thing. This is due to rules of language. A. phonological B. pragmatic C. semantic D. syntactic

[Jawaban] Compare the pace of the middle and end of the story. How is the pace different? Why do you think the author chose to change the pace in different parts of the text? Write three or four sentences to explain your answer.

[Jawaban] Read this stanza from "The Raven." Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing. Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" Merely this and nothing more. This stanza creates suspense because both the speaker and the reader wonder whether A. Lenore actually lived. B. the ghost of Lenore will appear. C. the raven will fly through the door. D. the raven is the ghost of Lenore.

[Jawaban] Read the passage from "Lather and Nothing Else." "And so, which will it be? Murderer or hero? My fate hangs on the edge of this razor blade. I can turn my wrist slightly, put a bit more pressure on the blade, let it sink in. The skin will yield like silk like rubber. like the strop. There is nothing more tender than a man's skin, and the blood is always there, ready to burst forth. A razor like this cannot fail. It is the best one I have." How does the figurative language in the underlined sentence build a tense mood? A. It shows how strong the captain is and how fearful the barber must be. B. It persuades readers to see the captain's political point of view. C. It creates a visual image and shows how easily the barber could hurt the captain. D. It describes details of an old-fashioned barbershop and creates sympathy for the barber.

[Jawaban] Jean-Paul is a bilingual Canadian. When asked about his summer vacation, his description in French is more romantic and emotional than his description of the same activities in English. Which communication concept would help explain this difference? A. The abstraction ladder B. Ogden and Richards's "triangle of meaning" C. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis D. Divergence