How do the authors support their claim and purpose with
their choice of words?
Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
The sugar that piled up on the docks near the plantations
was something new in the world: pure sweetness, pure
pleasure, so cheap that common people could afford it.
Scientists have shown that people all over the world must
learn to like salty tastes, sour tastes, mixed tastes. But
from the moment we are born, we crave sweetness. Cane
sugar was the first product in human history that perfectly
satisfied that desire. And the bitter lives of the enslaved
Africans produced so much sugar that pure sweetness
began to spread around the world.
O by using words with only positive connotations
O by using words that criticize sugar
O by repeating the words pure, sweetness, and tastes
O by repeating the words cheap and bitter