Which of the following is an example of the face-saving principle of language?
select the best answer from the choices provided

a student spitting on the ground in the middle of having a conversation with his teacher
a man interrupting a co-worker because he doesn’t agree with her opinion
a brother walking away from an argument with his sister
a friend avoiding a controversial topic

Read the excerpt from monster. petrocelli then he must have lied, is that right? o’brien objection. the prosecution is soliciting an argument. petrocelli withdrawn. mr. harmon, you say you weren’t at the drugstore anytime during the day of the robbery. perhaps you would tell us where you were. based on this dialogue, what can the reader infer? this is petrocelli's first time acting as the prosecuting attorney in a court of law. mr. harmon knows where he was during the day of the robbery. it is a rule of the court that a lawyer may not argue with someone during questioning. petrocelli has not been a trial lawyer as long as o'brien has.

But we pulled at the grill [on the ground] and it gave way. and then we saw iron rings as steps leading down a shaft into a darkness without bottom. … it was a great tunnel. its walls were hard and smooth to the touch; it felt like stone, but it was not stone. on the ground there were long thin tracks of iron, but it was not iron; it felt smooth and cold as glass. we knelt, and we crawled forward, our hand groping along the iron line to see where it would lead. but there was an unbroken night ahead. what is the most likely explanation for the walls described in the bold text?

Analyze how jackson uses elements of a story to develop her message. for example, how does she create both certainty about charles' character and uncertainty in her audience about charles' identity? should laurie's parents have realized the truth earlier? how does jackson foreshadow the ending for her audience, while allowing for a surprise for laurie's parents? what is jackson's message about children and parents?