Answer:
Examples:
Indirect speech:
He promised to take me to the cinema.
They threatened to sue us.
She offered me help.
Direct speech:
“I´m sad”, he said.
Explanation:
Reporting verbs, such as advised, complained, threatened, and offered, show that we are quoting or paraphrasing someone´s words, for both direct and indirect speech.
Answer:
Mr. Williams would never agree to the proposal to purchase new playground equipment. He's a miserly tightwad who never spends a penny.
caricature
Won't you do your part to protect the environment and petition for a mandatory recycling policy?
leading question
Drinking soft drinks must be okay. Trent has a can of soda every day at lunch, and he seems to be in good health.
incorrect premise
We cannot continue to stand idly by and allow innocent animals to be murdered. Save a life and give a puppy or kitten a second chance through pet adoption.
loaded terms
If you don't change your diet, you will develop diabetes and heart disease.
hasty generalizations
Global warming is a real problem because the earth's temperature is gradually rising.
circular reasoning
I heard Mr. Coleman's son got sent to the principal's office yesterday. Mr. Coleman must not be very strict with his children.
false assumption
Explanation:
The terms used here are fallacies and they have been correctly matched to the statements above.
A fallacy is the use of faulty, invalid or inaccurate reasoning to make an argument.
Fallacy is used by us many times in our day to day correspondence with others. We use it to try and 'win' an argument with someone without even knowing we are committing a fallacy.
For example, telling someone that because you cheated in a test and got high grades, therefore, everyone that gets high grades in a test cheated is a fallacy of hasty generalization.
All these are types of metaphors, which is a figurative language that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain the idea or make a comparison.
A metaphor says one thing is another thing, it equates these two things in order to compare or make a symbolism.
All of these excerpts create a poetic tone and a colourful mood.
Answer:
Letter B is the correct answer.
Explanation:
Idioms are a type of figurative language, and they express a feeling and every word should be understood as a whole and the meaning is not literal. Idioms are also untranslatable and we can't find an example of this in the excerpt.
An onomatopoeia is a word that tries to imitate sounds of a person, animal, or thing, creating a sound effect to make the description more expressive. In the excerpt, we can't see any of them.
Personification is when an animal or thing is given human characteristics. There isn't anything like that in the excerpt.
A simile is intended to show similarities between two different nouns and it normally uses the words like or as. In this case, the speaker is comparing the board with house of cards build by a child when he says "like a house that..." making letter B the correct answer.
