Answer:Nonverbal Transitions
Explanation:Transitions during a speech delivery may make a speaker look more eloquent.
It also help to keep the audience focused and not falling asleep.
Non-verbal transitions include things like:
1) Pausing with your voice. This is very important to maintain and not let it get out of hands because if it is constant it may make you seem like you have lost the sequence of your thoughts This one overdone can seem like you have lost your train of thought. It is very effective thought if you have given your audience a thought provoking statement , that pause moment will make them reflect for that moment on what you just said.
2) Your body movement on the stage. This is also a non verbal transition
3) Using your fingers to count off points.
The correct answer is B. Finally, I stood still, listening to the barely audible whoosh- whoosh- whoosh from the propellers.
Explanation
Sounds can be represented linguistically through words, this resource is known as onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia is the use of letters to form words in the language itself to imitate certain non-verbal sounds, such as the sounds of animals, natural phenomena, impacts, devices, etc. Therefore, the correct answer is B. "Finally I stood still, listening to the barely audible whoosh- whoosh- whoosh from the propellers" because in this sentence the onomatopoeia "whoosh" is used to express the sound of the birds.
<u>Answer</u>:
The text discusses the Chinese calendar by writing, "Dragons are included along with eleven real animals” which implies that dragons are real because all the other animals on the calendar are real.
Option D is the right answer.
<u>Explanation</u>:
In the excerpt, the author starts his search based on the words of wisdom by his grandmother. Her grandmother told her that one should believe in science but one should also believe in things which wasn't proven by science. He finds the mention of dragons in almost every culture and thinks they aren’t fictional. He finds them being mentioned in stories, folklore, in the entries of Marco Polo and in the Bible.
He also observes that the Chinese calendar comprises of twelve animals, eleven out of them are real ones. So he comes to this conclusion that there is a strong possibility that dragons did exist so it is as real as the other eleven animals in the calendar.
Assuming the author is the speaker is the best option. Also, reading the peom out loud is another strategy.
