ISC Writing and Editing in English - Writing and Editing: Revising - Weekly Review (Graded) - 100%

ISC Writing and Editing in English - Writing and Editing: Revising - Weekly Review (Graded) - 100%
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Question 1
In “An Essay on Criticism,” the 18th century British poet Alexander Pope suggests that it is not enough that the sound of a poem not “give offense.” To be a really exceptional piece of verse, the sound must link up with the meaning of words as well. “The sound,” he writes, “must seem an echo to the ______.”
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Question 2
The documentary filmmaker Ken Burns often collaborates with people and will delegate certain tasks to them. But what does he tell the journalist Ian Parker is the one thing he won’t give up control over?
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Question 3
In a 2012 essay called “The Trouble with Intentions,” Verlyn Klinkenborg observes that sentences “may be long, short, simple, complex, clear, ambiguous, even incoherent. But they don’t try to hide those qualities. They are what they are and they say what they say.” The problem is that writers aren’t always able to see these qualities, particularly when the qualities are negative. Klinkenborg has looked at countless sentences that are deficient in various ways - they’re cumbersome, redundant, jumbled, contradictory - and he has asked himself: Why didn’t the writers catch these mistakes? Why couldn’t they see the obvious flaws the reader now has to suffer through?
His answer: “The sentence, as written, was _______ to them.”
Fill in the missing word.
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Question 4
True or False: A clause contains a verb (or verb phrase).
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Question 5
Chapter 4 (“Sound and Sense”) of Good With Words: Writing and Editing includes some adaptations of a pair of questions that John Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court used to ask about legal briefs when he was still a practicing attorney: (1) What is this case about? and (2) Why should I win?
Identify those adaptations below.
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Question 6
True or False: There are no dependent clauses in the following sentence, which is often attributed to the 19th century Romantic poet Lord Byron: “If I could always read, I would never feel the want of company.”
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Question 7
How many independent clauses are in the following sentence Abraham Lincoln wrote to Horace Greely on August 22, 1862, in the middle of the American Civil War and when a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation had already been created?
“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.”
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Question 8
Chapter 4 (“Sound and Sense) of Good with Words: Writing and Editing mentions that some of the world’s best novels started with a much different title and were only later edited into the ones they are now remembered by. Among the examples was a book that began as “Atticus.” What did that title eventually get changed to?
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Question 9
True or False: The journalist Susan Orlean has tweeted that the “single best tool” for self-editing is reading your work out loud.
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Question 10
The Questions section of Chapter 4 (“Sound and Sense”) in Good with Words: Writing and Editing mentions that the American film director Alfred Hitchcock credited someone with having an even better editorial eye than he did. Who was the person?