Answer:
"In all that time, shunning all women, Orpheus still believed his love-pledge was forever." (Paragraph 5)
Explanation:
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.
The google definition of the verb exact is "to demand and obtain from someone"
This leads me to believe that the answer would be C. take by force.
Traditional Native Americanism, If not correct please forgive me
If the passage is about the human errors that contributed to the spread of the fire, only details that prevented the firemen from being able to contain the fire should be used. The sentence "Even after the fire, Brown was confident..." shows that Brown was confident in his decision. This sentence does not however directly contribute to the firefighters inability to effectively contain the fire at the time of the fire. This takes place after the fire has done the damage.
