Read the sentence from Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. All right, so what we’re not talking about today, we are not talking about cancer, because I spent a lot of time talking about that and I’m really not interested.

Pausch tells his audience this because he wants them to know that

he has chosen not to focus on his cancer.
he is only interested in things he has never talked about.
they will get what they are expecting from the speech.
speeches about cancer are not interesting.

True or false: a writer uses ellipses to indicate an omission or that something has been left out of a direct quote.

The war of the worlds by h. g. wells but, looking, i presently saw something stirring within the then something resembling a little gray snake, about the thickness of a walking stick, coiled up out of the writhing middle and wriggled in the air toward me – and then another the war of the worlds (radio broadcast) by orson welles good heavens, something's wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake. now it's another one, and another. they look like tentacles to me. which sentence best describes the tone of the passage from the book compared to the passage from the radio broadcast? a. the book has a more matter-of-fact tone, b. the book has an angrier tone. c. the book has a scarier tone. d. the book has a more surprised tone.

Is a psychological tool in which a person creates a detailed mental picture of an event. select the choice that best answers the question. a. stereotyping b. imaging c. visualization d. mentoring