Part 4: Writing to Evaluate Mortimer's Style

Question 1

To analyze an author’s style, which elements should the reader identify? Check all that apply.

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Question 2

Which question should writers ask in order to consider their audience?

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B: Who will read my writing?

Question 3

Read the beginning of the literary analysis paragraph.The writer has a very accomplished style. His descriptions make the facts more dramatic for the reader.

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B: The writer repeats the word “deadly” so much that it becomes alarming.

Question 4

At what point should a writer introduce evidence in a paragraph?

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C: after making a point

Question 5

Read the passage from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.If you want to know which years are a good time to visit and which years to avoid, the following is a guide to the extremes. The years of greatest plenty—i.e., those in which the price of grain is 20 percent or more below the average—are 1564, 1566, 1569–71, 1583–84, 1587–88, 1592–93, and 1602, the very best being 1592 and 1593, when grain prices are just 56 percent and 65 percent of the average.

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A: analyze the information logically.

Question 6

Before writing her essay, Larissa asked herself the following question.What is my goal for writing?

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C: purpose.

Question 7

Read the sentence.Lots of writers have written good stuff other than books, like stuff for movies.

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A: Modern novelists often expand to other genres, such as screenwriting.

Question 8

When a reader evaluates an author’s style, the reader

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D: judges it in a careful and thoughtful way.

Question 9

Read the literary analysis paragraph.In Parasite, author Mira Grant’s writing style helps readers examine the dangers of medical technology. Grant uses precise wording to help readers grasp advanced medical concepts. Her clear style allows readers to explore a world that might otherwise be beyond them.

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C: supporting evidence

Question 10

Which sentence uses precise, domain-specific wording?

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D: I liked how the author’s use of second-person point of view got my attention.

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