Research Workshop: Writing an Argumentative Essay — Cumulative exam
Question 55 • ALT ENG 11 S2 Common Core ELA 11 2014 - ELA3011 B-CR
Read the excerpt from Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Death by Black Hole.”But there is more bad news.All parts of your body are moving toward the same spot—the black hole’s center. So while you’re getting ripped apart head to toe, you will also extrude through the fabric of space and time, like toothpaste squeezed through a tube.To all the words in the English language that describe ways to die (e.g., homicide, suicide, electrocution, suffocation, starvation) we add the term “spaghettification.”In this excerpt, Tyson conveys his complex ideas by
Answer
A
introducing complicated terminology.
B
providing relevant statistics and figures.
C
relating the information to something familiar.
D
describing a personal experience.
Explanation
Tyson explains what happens to a person near a black hole by comparing it to toothpaste being squeezed through a tube. The familiar image helps readers picture the complex process of being stretched and pulled apart, so the correct choice is relating the information to something familiar.
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