Muaysiy voru viivive
which statement best explains how word
choice supports the author's perspective?
for it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a
highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry
would have been so thwarted and hindered by other
people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own
contrary instincts, that she must have lost her health and
sanity to a certainty.
-a room of one's own,
virginia woolf
o the irony of the phrase contrary instincts
supports the author's perspective.
repetition reinforces the perspective that
women have a variety of life choices.
the negative connotations of thwarted
and pulled asunder reinforce the idea
that women face discrimination.
the connotation of the word gifted
supports the author's perspective that
women have greater skills than men.