Which comment is about the diction of a story?
a. when an author ends a story at the climax, the reader feels lost and frustrated.
b. the theme of the story is about the meaning, or meaninglessness, of life.
c. the author's use of dark, sinister words provides the perfect backdrop for suspense.
d. when the author develops a character through only direct characterization, the reader will lose the thrill of discovery.

Explain how johnny got hurt. how does this affect his personality

Study the editorial cartoon mars probe by mike keefe. how does the alien with the baseball bat contribute to the effectiveness of the political cartoon? it suggests that aliens are like people because they play baseball, a human sport. it uses humor to show that unknown factors keep damaging the probes humans send. it shows how to cope with the surface of mars, which is rocky and full of craters. it exaggerates the size of the bat in relation to the mars probe in the cartoon.

One of the author's purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with enormous speed mark this and return save and exit next submit