Answer:An author's word choice is always purposeful and full of thought. When you identify his purpose, it's easy to pick out what he chose certain images or words in his writing.
Explanation:
Understanding the author's purpose helps the reader better understand the main idea of the passage and follow the author's ideas as they progress. Likewise, an author has a purpose for the various decisions made in crafting the sentences in the passage.
Answer:
Holden keeps asking them, if they knew where the ducks who live in Central Park South lagoon go when the water freezes over, which makes them (cab drivers) to question is mental state.
Explanation:
From the given question, Holden keeps asking the different can drivers if they knew where the ducks who live in Central Park South lagoon go when the water freezes over.
Also, when he asked same question to a taxi driver, the taxi-driver frowned at his question and then begins to talk about something else like fish instead. before now Holden asks the taxi-driver to have a drink with him, which he rejected.
Answer:
The word cheap has a negative connotation associated with it therefore when read it'll give the reader a negative feeling about the action being done.
Explanation:
Not much can be specified about how it affects the passage due to me not having access to it but I hope this helped.
I would say this is an example of alliteration.
