This question is missing the options. I've found them online; they are the following:
Which word best describes Annie in this excerpt?
A. intelligent
B. reckless
C. confident
D. polite
Answer:
The word that best describes Annie in this excerpt is:
C. confident
Explanation:
Let's take a look at the following line from the excerpt:
<em>ANAGNOS: Annie, be- humble. It is not as if you have so many offers to pick and choose.</em>
<u>It is the line above that reveals what we need to know about Annie. Anagnos is telling her to be humble because, at this moment, she sounds overly confident. She even says she only has trouble when she is right, and that she is not the one to blame if she has trouble so often. Annie's confidence is actually quite close to becoming arrogance. She is willing to behave, but Anagnos still feels the need to tell her to be humble.</u>
Answer:
To create suspense, writers must reveal details gradually so readers want more.
Explanation:
Lee Child's "A Simple Way to Create Suspense" is an essay where he narrates or rather expressed his take on creating suspense in his works. The essay provides his approach to making a suspenseful work rather than directly approaching the climax in a story.
In the given paragraph from the end of his essay, he states that there are numerous ways to make work interesting. He agrees that <em>"Attractive and sympathetic characters re nice to have; and elaborate and sinister entanglements are satisfying .... [added with] impossible-to-escape pits of despair"</em>. But all these are<em> "luxuries"</em> which provide not enough thrill. Rather, he opines that<em> "the slow unveiling of the final answer" </em>is the basic narrative fuel of any work.
Thus, the <u>central idea of the passage is that writers must reveal details slowly and gradually so that the readers will want more, creating a suspenseful environment.
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