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Flashcards: Craft, Structure, and Language Skills in Brief Statements

Kevin's performance leaves a lot to be desired. His appearance is sloppy, his punctuality is lacking, and he's a traitor.

The use of the word "traitor" serves which of the following purposes in this passage?

None of these

It subtly shifts the tone of the passage from negative but professional to emotionally charged and angry

It suddenly shifts the tone from charged and angry to discrete and professional

It does not change the tone at all. The tone remains negative throughout.

It suddenly shifts the tone of the passage from negative but professional to emotionally charged and angry

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Flashcards: Craft, Structure, and Language Skills in Brief Statements

Kevin's performance leaves a lot to be desired. His appearance is sloppy, his punctuality is lacking, and he's a traitor.

The use of the word "traitor" serves which of the following purposes in this passage?

None of these

It subtly shifts the tone of the passage from negative but professional to emotionally charged and angry

It suddenly shifts the tone from charged and angry to discrete and professional

It does not change the tone at all. The tone remains negative throughout.

It suddenly shifts the tone of the passage from negative but professional to emotionally charged and angry

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Flashcards: Craft, Structure, and Language Skills in Brief Statements

The use of the word "traitor" serves which of the following purposes in this passage?

Your answer:

None of these

Your answer:

It subtly shifts the tone of the passage from negative but professional to emotionally charged and angry

Your answer:

It suddenly shifts the tone from charged and angry to discrete and professional

Your answer:

It does not change the tone at all. The tone remains negative throughout.

Correct answer:

It suddenly shifts the tone of the passage from negative but professional to emotionally charged and angry

Explanation:

The first sentence expresses a negative evaluation of Kevin, but it does so in neutral, professional language. Even the two claims that follow about his appearance and punctuality, while maybe a bit stronger ("sloppy"), remain in this register. The emotionally charged, judgmental term "traitor" suddenly shifts the mood to a more intense and emotional one.

Flashcards: Craft, Structure, and Language Skills in Brief Statements

If what the reader is looking for is careful craft, minute attention to detail, and detailed plotting, they may doubt the talents of Richard Browler. If, on the other hand, the reader values the higher values to be found in literature, originality, style, humor, grace and intellectual engagement, they will find much to love in the Browler canon.

The author of this passage _______________.

believes that Browler's work is of value, as his strengths are of more value than his bad traits are of negative value

does not express, nor give hints about his/her, opinion on the nature of Browler's work

believes that Browler's literary vices and virtues are equally balanced

None of these

believes that Browler is a sloppy writer whose plots are lacking

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Flashcards: Craft, Structure, and Language Skills in Brief Statements

The author of this passage _______________.

Your answer:

does not express, nor give hints about his/her, opinion on the nature of Browler's work

Your answer:

believes that Browler's literary vices and virtues are equally balanced

Your answer:

None of these

Your answer:

believes that Browler is a sloppy writer whose plots are lacking

Correct answer:

believes that Browler's work is of value, as his strengths are of more value than his bad traits are of negative value

Explanation:

This brief statement begins by enumerating the factors that may lead a reader to "doubt the talents of Richard Browler," and then pivots into describing the virtues of his work. The key to figuring out which side of these vices and virtues the author lies can be found in the phrase "the higher values to be found in literature," which clearly lets the reader that the author values the positive traits as more important than the negative ones.

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