While advocating sending more troops to the war zone, the officials preferred to use
the word "surge," rather than "escalation," because "escalation" was a word strongly
associated with a failed policy during the Vietnam War, a failure
that many Americans
continue to find quite painful—to say the least. For these Americans, "escalation" would
have strong ___ meaning.
A) connotative
B) abstract
C) denotative
D) concrete
A
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When you ask listeners to make a particular choice, you must be sensitive to your ________
responsibility not to manipulate them. Fill in the blanks with correct word
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In Burke’s dramatistic analysis, purpose refers to the
a. action taking place b. the means by which an action takes place c. the individual(s) taking action d. reason an act was done e. the explanation offered by individuals in an interaction
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