Newspaper headlines, such as "Two Convicts Evade Noose, Jury Hung," may strike us as funny. From the perspective of language, this is because the phrase or headline
A) is impossible to interpret.
B) has ambiguous meaning.
C) has no literal interpretation.
D) lacks subject-verb agreement.
Answer: B
You might also like to view...
When Milgram and his team set up several variations of his original study, they found that people were more likely to disobey when
A) the experimenter wore a white lab coat instead of street clothes. B) a confederate acting as another teacher refused to comply. C) a second experimenter agreed the experiment should continue. D) the experimenter appeared to be an authority figure.
Carla reported observing herself help a pedestrian who had been hit by a taxicab driver from atop a building awning 15-feet off the ground. This is an example of what altered state of consciousness?
A) Dissociation B) Hypnosis C) Near-death experience D) Out-of-body experience