Read the following excerpt patricia hampl’s “the need to say it” and answer the question. she kept her distance from the printed word of english, but she lavished attention on her lodge newspaper which came once a month, written in the quaint nineteenth-century czech she and her generation had brought to america before the turn of the century. like a wedding cake saved from the feast, this language, over the years, had become a fossil, still recognized but no longer something to be put in the mouth. in the excerpt above, what does the author imply about the grandmother? a. her grandmother enjoyed reading current events from her native town and country. b. her grandmother held english books far away from her face. c. her grandmother was jealous of the her newspaper. d. her grandmother also read her local newspaper.

Answer :

"She kept her distance from the printed word of English, but she lavished attention on her lodge newspaper which came once a month, written in the quaint nineteenth-century Czech she and her generation had brought to America before the turn of the century. Like a wedding cake saved from the feast, this language, over the years, had become a fossil, still recognized but no longer something to be put in the mouth."

A. In the above excerpt from Patricia Hampl's "The Need to Say it," the author implies that her Grandmother enjoyed reading current events from her native town and country.

A. Her Grandmother enjoyed reading current events from her native town and country.

Explanation:

Her Grandmotheris a Czech who relocated to America. She doesn't care to peruse anything in English. She simply needed to associate with her foundations by perusing the recent developments from her local town and nation which was communicated through her native dialect.

the correct answer is:

this is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.

sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)