Question 10 of 10 • Common Core ELA 11 - ELA3011 B-IC
Read the excerpt from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.“Tenente,” Passini said. “We understand you let us talk. Listen. There is nothing as bad as war. We in the auto-ambulance cannot even realize at all how bad it is. When people realize how bad it is they cannot do anything to stop it because they go crazy. There are some people who never realize. There are people who are afraid of their officers. It is with them the war is made.”In typical Hemingway style, the excerpt
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contains a number of abstract nouns and many adjectives.
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contains a large amount of punctuation and few adjectives and adverbs.
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contains many strong nouns and adjectives but few verbs and adverbs.
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contains few adjectives and adverbs but many strong verbs and concrete nouns.