I believe the answer would be the first option :)
Complete Question:
The speaker begins to speak more slowly as she walks to the front of the stage. She deliberately looks around the audience, pauses and then speaks in a softer tone. The speaker is trying to:
A. signal her presentation's conclusion.
B. regain audience attention.
C. signal the beginning of her speech.
D. motivate the audience to respond.
Answer:
A. Signal her presentation's conclusion.
Explanation:
In this scenario, the speaker begins to speak more slowly as she walks to the front of the stage. She deliberately looks around the audience, pauses, and then speaks in a lower pitch. The speaker is most likely trying to signal her presentation's conclusion.
The conclusion of a presentation serves as a summary of the main or key points. Therefore, it is very important that speakers begin to speak slowly and make use of non-verbal cues such as eye contacts, gestures, facial expressions, movements etc to signal the conclusion of their presentation or speech. The aforementioned actions would make your presentation memorable to the audience and to remember the main points therein.
Hilda 'H.D.' Doolittle, Ezra Pound, and Richard Aldington were the pioneers of modernist poetry, writing in rejection of the formalism of Victorian poetry and European society. World War I had a profound effect on the further development of the modernist movement. The poetry that followed World War I reflected the disillusionment of those who had experienced the tragedy and horror of modern combat. T.S. Eliot's 'The Wasteland' is an example of the disjointed and fragmented verse arising from this disillusionment.
