After reading the selection from “Celebrity Bodies,” choose the best answer to each question. Click the submit button when finished. The following questions refer to paragraphs 5–6.
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11.10 What rhetorical move does the first sentence of paragraph 5 accomplish?
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11.11 What is the likely purpose of the list of colloquialisms in the first sentence of paragraph 5?
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11.12 What logical fallacy does Harris employ throughout the piece, most likely purposefully?
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11.13 When Harris lists the behaviors Americans typically exhibit in terms of celebrity obsessions, such as “follow the evolution of their hair styles, take tours past the gates of their estates, make wild surmises about their sexual preferences” (beginning of para. 6), he uses the rhetorical strategy of
4. When Harris lists the behaviors Americans typically exhibit in terms of celebrity obsessions, such as “follow the evolution of their hair styles, take tours past the gates of their estates, make wild surmises about their sexual preferences” (beginning of para. 6), he uses the rhetorical strategy of
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11.14 What risk does Harris take by offering specific examples of celebrity behavior (such as the Nicole Kidman “incident” in Cannes)?
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11.15 In the sentence near the end of paragraph 6 that begins “We ourselves smoke like chimneys,” what does Harris intend by the term “malleable”?
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11.16 The rhetorical device employed in the sentence “Hollywood didn’t create fat, anxious Americans; fat, anxious Americans created Hollywood” (para. 5) is
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11.17 The overall tone of the piece would best be described as
8. The overall tone of the piece would best be described as