Namely, most human language feature four skills, divided into productive skills and receptive skills.
- Productive skills: speaking and writing.
- Receptive skills: listening and reading.
For a long time, human languages only featured one productive skill, speaking, and one receptive skill, listening. Writing and reading would appear at a later time within the ancient cultures of Mesopotamia (who invented the cuneiform writing system) and ancient Egypt (who developed hieroglyphic and demotic writing systems). Even today, many human groups living in isolated and remote areas have not developed writing and reading, relying solely on speaking and listening and on oral tradition (passing down the history of the group from one generation to the next) for their communication needs.
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The effect that Saukko’s objective tone has in the sentence “we should generate as much waste as possible from substances such as uranium-238, which has a half-life … of one million years” is a sarcastic tone.
Explanation:
She develops her passage through a variety of methods to poison the earth. Deep-well injections of toxic substances, contamination of surface water, and pollution through combustion and evaporation are a few of the solutions regarding poisoning the earth. She uses sarcasim to try and reach out and get the people who want to poison the earth to fall for it.
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<u>The type of figurative language</u> is 'metaphor' which is a figure of speech that makes an implicit or hidden comparison between two unrelated things.
<u>Meaning of figurative language</u>: in this case, the metaphor is explaining the attitude towards Jewish people in terms of law; it was 'illegal' to aid them.
<u>Effect on tone and mood:</u> the fact that it was forbidden to help and comfort the ones in need gives a serious tone and mood to this passage.
<u>Effect on the audience</u>: It portraits the suffering of Jewish people for having been discriminated against. It also makes more significant the figure of Martin Luther King.
I think the correct answer from the choices listed above is the third option. The christian theme of uncle tom’s cabin comes closest to reflecting the power of emotion over logic which a common trait of american romanticism. Hope this answers the question. Have a nice day.
