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As adjectives the difference between argumentative and cantankerous. is that argumentative is prone to argue or dispute while cantankerous is given to or marked by an ill-tempered nature, ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby.
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the author's use of clues to hint at what will happen later in the story.
Explanation:
the word "foreshadowing" is a technique used by the writer to give hints or clues about the events that will occur in a story, which help the writer to create expectations on the reader and made the reader feel interested in the literary work.
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The Space Race
The wonderful space race, beginning in 1955 and lasting until 1975 was a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union where they were trying to achieve superiority in spaceflight. The competition between the U.S and the Soviet Union began in 1955 when the U.S announced their intention to launch artificial satellites, and four days later the Soviet Union announced that they would also be launching a satellite(s) “in the near future”
In October 1957 the USSR achieved the first successful satellite launch, as well as in April 1961 sent the first human into orbit beating the U.S in first human into orbit which took place in May 1961. Shortly after the U.Ss first human launch, John F. Kennedy proceeded to raise the stakes and asked the U.S Congress to commit to the goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely. Both the U.S and the Soviet Union then proceeded to develop super heavy lift launch vehicles, and later in July of 1969 Apollo 11 proceeded to launch and land man on the moon, the USSR pursued two crewed lunar programs but failed to beat the U.S in first man on the moon, and later began to concentrate on Salyut which was the first space station program.
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It is a pun.
Explanation:
This is because it is a figure of speech that exploits a word's meaning in this case that the book was impossible to put down.
