Read the excerpt from The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles.
<em>[T]he Germans committed some blunders in the way they sent their secret radio messages, giving the British help in their task. The first mistake of German intelligence was the error of arrogance, believing that the British were not up to the challenge of deciphering their messages. Another mistake they made was sending duplicates and even triplicates of some of their messages, with each one using a different cipher key.</em>
Question: Which word best describes the tone of the passage?
Options:
- Critical
- Apologetic
- Objective
- Discouraged
Answer: The correct answer is: <u>Critical.</u>
Explanation: A critical tone is used to express an analysis of merits and faults of something or someone. The passage talks about The German's secret radio messages against the British. It expresses adverse and disapproving comments towards the Germans, by mentioning that The German intelligence was arrogant and that they committed terrible mistakes in the way they sent their secret radio messages.
The planning web could be filled in as the following:
- kind of TV show (whether it is a soap opera, games show, interviews program, etc.
- description of the TV show (host or hostess, people who participate, stories it reproduces)
- why you like the TV show (your favorite things about it)
The answer would be A) A wild animal was spotted on Mon, Mar 15.
The correct answer is plaintive ballad and mourning.
Elegiac broadside itself is a type of ballad which has a plaintive feel and which is mournful.
It is a poetry which tells the story of a life which is being lost. An elegiac broadside is being got from mournful feeling of a poetry.
If a story is being taught like a ballad, it is being recited for a person who has died.
The broadside is the paper which contains the announcements, the public information and the elegies.
A famous example of an elegiac broadside is the elegy.
