The language in the given excerpt from <em>Our Town</em> lacks specificity and makes weddings seem dull and uninteresting.
Explanation:
<em>Our Town</em> is a metatheatrical three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938. It tells about a fictional American town called Grover's Corners and the everyday lives of its citizens between 1901 and 1913. The excerpt you were given are the following words of the character marked as the Stage Manager:
<em>Well. Now we're ready to get on with the wedding.
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<em>There are a lot of things to be said about a wedding; there are a lot of thoughts that go on during a wedding. We can't get them all into one wedding, naturally, and especially not into a wedding at Grover's Corners, where they're awfully plain and short.
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The options you were given are:
- It lacks specificity.
- It creates an enthusiastic tone.
- It makes weddings seem dull and uninspiring.
- It encourages the audience to make inferences about weddings.
We can see that there are no details in the given excerpt that can help us pinpoint what exact wedding it's about. That's why we can say that the language used here lacks specificity. The weddings are explicitly described as <em>awfully plain and short</em>, which is why we can confidently say that this excerpt makes weddings seem dull and uninspiring. There is no enthusiasm, and no details based on which the audience could make inferences.
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