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? 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.

Read this excerpt from "the light of gandhi's lamp" by hilary kromberg inglis, in which she describes driving to the police station where her sister is being detained. to avoid looking at the blackened windows at the top of the building and thinking about the history of who had died or been tortured there, i always looked instead at the little chinese restaurant on the opposite side of the road. how does this passage affect the text? it conveys, with great subtlety, the conflict she felt over having a sister who would break the law and end up in the custody of the police. it conveys, without any implied moral judgment, that those who fought against apartheid considered themselves to be soldiers in a just war. it conveys, with an extended metaphor, the idea that being detained by the police in this society was regarded as a badge of honor. it conveys, with direct language, the view held by many anti-apartheid activists that the police often acted in brutal and unlawful ways.