EXERCISE 4

● EXERCISE 4 ●

Most of the modifiers have been removed from the following passage from “Hip Hop Planet” by James McBride.

Not since the advent of jazz in the 1930s has an American music exploded across the world with force. Not since the Beatles invaded America and Elvis packed up his shoes has a music crashed against the world with outrage. The culture of song, graffiti, and dance, known as hip hop, has ripped music from its moorings in society it has permeated.

  • Read the paragraph aloud, and listen to its cadence (the combination of the text’s rhythm with the rise and fall in the inflection of the speaker’s voice).

    Question

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    Chapter 11 - EXERCISE 4: - Most of the modifiers have been removed from the following passage from “Hip Hop Planet” by James McBride. - Most of the modifiers have been removed from the following passage from “Hip Hop Planet” by James McBride. - Read the paragraph aloud, and listen to its cadence (the combination of the text’s rhythm with the rise and fall in the inflection of the speaker’s voice).
  • Add the following modifiers: blue, overwhelming, suede, swing, such, defiant, popular, every, collectively. Use them to improve the paragraph’s effectiveness.

    Question

    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 11 - EXERCISE 4: - Most of the modifiers have been removed from the following passage from “Hip Hop Planet” by James McBride. - Most of the modifiers have been removed from the following passage from “Hip Hop Planet” by James McBride. - Add the following modifiers: blue, overwhelming, suede, swing, such, defiant, popular, every, collectively. Use them to improve the paragraph’s effectiveness.
  • Compare your version to the original (see para. 7, p. 789).

    Question

    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 11 - EXERCISE 4: - Most of the modifiers have been removed from the following passage from “Hip Hop Planet” by James McBride. - Most of the modifiers have been removed from the following passage from “Hip Hop Planet” by James McBride. - Compare your version to the original (see para. 7, p. 789).
  • Discuss the rhetorical effect of the modifiers in this passage.

    Question

    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 11 - EXERCISE 4: - Most of the modifiers have been removed from the following passage from “Hip Hop Planet” by James McBride. - Most of the modifiers have been removed from the following passage from “Hip Hop Planet” by James McBride. - Discuss the rhetorical effect of the modifiers in this passage.