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QuizMultiple Choice

Gravity and Motion

Question 16 • Healthy Living - EL2081 SS

Read the excerpt from On the Road.One day I was hanging around the campus and Chad and Tim Gray told me Dean was staying in a cold-water pad in East Harlem, the Spanish Harlem. Dean had arrived the night before, the first time in New York, with his beautiful little sharp chick Marylou; they got off the Greyhound bus at 50th Street and cut around the corner looking for a place to eat and went right in Hector’s, and since then Hector’s cafeteria has always been a big symbol of New York for Dean.Which statement best describes how Kerouac’s use of syntax contributes to his writing style?

Answer
A
Kerouac’s use of syntax gives his writing the intellectual quality of formal academic discourse.
B
Kerouac’s use of syntax gives his writing the journalistic tone of a newspaper article.
C
Kerouac’s use of syntax gives his writing the natural ease and flow of informal conversation.
D
Kerouac’s use of syntax gives his writing the discipline and complexity of traditional literature.
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