Answer:
a) the moon is more useful since it gives us light during the night, when it is dark.
Explanation:
A fallacy is an incorrect belief, typically one that is supported by weak reasoning.
The reasoning here suffers from the fallacy of the hidden hand. The fact that the Moon must rely on the Sun for illumination is a piece of information that has been covered up. Therefore, there can be no day or night without the sun.
Answer:
B. The father probably punched something and messed up his fist.
Explanation:
Imagery is a powerful tool many writers and poets use. Using figurative and descriptive language, they help their readers visualize what is written by appealing to their senses.
The given line is from the poem <em>My Papa’s Waltz</em> written by Theodore Roethke. Roethke uses imagery to help us imagine a father's battered hand holding the little boy's wrist. Based on the context, we know that the father was abusive and that he beat his own son. This is why options A and C could also be correct.
But in the question you were given, we don't have the context. If we didn't take a look at the entire poem, we could only assume that he punched something and injured his fist. This is why option B is the correct one.
The correct answer is A, amelioration. In linguistics pejoration is a term used to signify how a word's meaning becomes downgraded and goes from having a positive meaning to having a negative meaning. Amelioration is a reverse term, it is a phenomenon where one word over time acquires a more positive meaning, as is the case with prestige, which now has a positive connotation.
