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Wolfe credited Talese with stirring a revolution, a pronouncement that cannot be considered __________, so groundbreaking was Talese`s method of framing and developing his factual short stories.
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No one would suggest that we might enhance our democracy simply by tuning in to the infinity of conversations eternally buzzing away among us, or, by the same token, that we might (i)_____ our politics simply by encouraging more talk. In the era of the Internet, no further (ii)_____ loquaciousness is necessary.
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The natural landscape on which we live represents a temporary (i)_____ building and destroying forces. Erosional forces are powerful enough to reduce all the continents to broad, rolling plains in only a few million years. In most places, however, this reduction is (ii)_____ tectonic and volcanic forces.
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Although the body of work by pre-Islamic Arabic poet al-Khansā` consists almost exclusively of elegies, it would be (i)_____ to draw from this fact inferences about the poet`s personal preoccupations: elegy was the predominant genre for women poets of her time, providing al-Khansā` a way to demonstrate her (ii)_____ a set of generic conventions. If the convention for women was to write elegies and al-Khansā` wanted to be a (iii)_____ poet, then she would produce a great number of elegies.
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The author mentions the length of time Native Americans had been hunting deer primarily in order to
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The passage suggests which of the following about Seton`s estimate of the precolonial whitetail deer population in North America?
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According to the passage, compared to critics trained in "historicist and feminist criticism," earlier critics of Austen were
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According to the passage, the "present essay" parallels Siskin`s study in which of the following ways?
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For the following question, consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.
The author of the passage would most likely agree with which of the following statements about the concept of "feminine Romanticism"?
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Which of the following best describes the function of the highlighted sentence in the context of the passage as a whole?
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The latest publications predicting disastrous coastal erosion are likely to seem __________ to knowledgeable readers because variations on the same claims have been effectively refuted in the past few years.
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In conversations with Vivian, one received the impression that she had access to an infinite store of __________, short, pithy, and wise.
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Though often conflated by outsiders at the time, the Beat poetry scene and the folk-music revival were actually in many ways __________, despite sharing certain ancestral connections in the Depression-era Left.
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Klein argues that the official version of healthy living peddled by public health institutions and the commercial interests surrounding them is __________, as it constitutes a veritable assault on the actual health of society.
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Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?
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According to the passage, which of the following was true of felonies in preindustrial England?
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