Read the following excerpt from a speech by a national leader: today we are at war. the seriousness of this situation cannot be overstated. we are in danger, and events are uncertain. recently the enemy has been prevailing, as evidenced by their victories last week. but i can assure you with the faith only an american can have that we will prevail. the world depends on us to provide inspiration to them, and we have never let them down. based on the word choices in this excerpt, which of the following does the speaker most likely assume about his audience? a. they are unfamiliar with the events mentioned. b. they feel uncertain about the future. c. they are confused by the reason for the enemy's victories. d. they dispute his understanding of the nature of the events.

The correct answer is B. They feel uncertain about the future.

Explanation:

The audience of a speech refers to the group of people a speaker is directly addressing the features this group of people has. In the text presented, one national leader states the country is at war and their enemy has been winning this war "Recently the enemy has been prevailing, as evidenced by their victories last week", despite this, he believes the war can be won the U.S. " But I can assure you with the faith only an American can have that we will prevail". This shows the speaker knows the audience is aware of the war and the victories of the enemy and this main purpose is to reassure the audience the result will change as they probably feel uncertain about the future. Therefore, it is probably the speaker assumes about the audience that this feels uncertain about the future and because of this the speaker wants to give hope to the audience and tell them everything will improve.

the text includes parts of primary-source interviews with enslaved people to illustrate the difficulty of life on a sugar plantation in louisiana.

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the hunger games, written by  suzanne collins, is fiction in the young adult genre, which is not my age group, but i found myself unable to put it down. its combination of nerve-racking tension, thrilling action, and engaging love story kept me up until the wee hours. i was surprised at how completely engrossing the plot was. like  brave new world, this story is set in a future where the government oppresses its people, but the book also borrows ideas from the greek myth of theseus and the minotaur.

divided into 12 districts, ruled by an oppressive government located at the  capitol. katniss everdeen, a 16-year-old girl from district 12, takes her younger sister’s place as one of 24 “tributes” selected every year to participate in the hunger games at the capitol.

while i found this book absolutely enthralling, i was surprised it was aimed at an audience of young adults. it seems extremely intense for anyone younger than 16 or 17. for example, there is a scene where one young tribute is slowly eaten alive by wolf-like creatures all night long, and katniss has to finally throw a weapon at him to end his misery. i found this a little too disturbing when i considered the age of the character.

the intensity of the action was something one would find in a more mature book, but the age of the characters and the simplicity of the prose were aimed at a much younger audience. in addition, this book was written in present tense, which i found annoying, but that’s more of a personal preference than a stylistic fault. it was also edited somewhat poorly, but that rarely distracted from the plot. for example, the author often spoke in sentence fragments to describe how katniss felt, which might have been an attempt to reflect on her thought process, but i found it disorienting to read a lot of really short sentences all together. it would have been better to vary the sentence length on occasion, but the story was still coherently.

overall,  the hunger games  was an excellent, enthralling read that i highly recommend. if it was more clearly marked for older teens, it would have been better, but it was a fantastic book with a wonderfully creative plot.

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