Answer: The readers can infer that the stories told about the barbarians were told in a way to make the barbarians sound terrifying and dangerous. The fishermen were, most likely, told about the barbarians in a way to make the fishermen fear them, as a sign to beware of them.
Explanation: The way the barbarians were described was terrifying, almost gruesome. The person describing the barbarians most likely was trying to warn them not to run in to them.
The correcy answer is B) wealthy.
In cruel tribute, the author build suspense most by: waiting to reveal the minotaur
I the stories, the city where the main character lives annually gave out a sacrificial victim to be eaten by the Minotaur in order to prevent the destruction of the entire city .Because of this, A lot of suspense was created everytime the characters stand and wait for the arrival of the minotaur that come for its victim.
The correct answer is D. It is not a strong example of paraphrasing. It just rearranges the original words in a new order.
Explanation:
In writing, paraphrasing implies using the ideas of an external source and author and expressing them by using your own words, because of this a strong paraphrasing would change the language used but keep the essence and main points of the original ideas. In the excerpt presented, the author tried to paraphrase a passage that describes cone snails. However, in the passage paraphrased the author uses the same terms and words than in the original passage which means he or she is not expressing the ideas of the original passage with his or her own words but only changing the order of ideas the text and therefore this is not a strong paraphrasing and can even be considered a plagiarism as the same words and ideas are being used. Therefore, this text can be described as "It is not a strong example of paraphrasing. It just rearranges the original words in a new order".
Answer:
b. taking out an awkward phrase
Explanation:
Option B is an example of local revision.
Local revision is known to deal more with sentence-level revision. In this type, words are changed in order to make a sentence clearer, grammatical or spelling errors are correcting, awkward phrases or clauses are removed, etc.
Another type of revision is global revision. This type focuses on the big picture of the whole work; the ideas, audience, analysis, organization, etc.
Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing Concise Edition stated, ""You revise locally whenever you make changes to a text that affect only the one or two sentences that you are currently working on. In contrast, you revise globally when a change in one part of your draft drives changes in other parts of the draft"
Therefore, Option B is the correct answer.
