English, 03.10.2019 04:30 jfarrar02

Read the following excerpt from the article "vision, voice and the power of creation: an author speaks out," by t. a. barron, and answer the question that follows: yet deeper than character, or even place, is another concept: voice. more than any other doorway to the imagination, i find this one the trickiest to open—and the hardest to close. for a character's true voice is heard, its tones, cadences, and ideas are long remembered. the ancients [people from ancient history] used anima, in fact, to describe breath as well as soul. that is wholly appropriate, for in the breath—the voice—of a character lies its essential spirit. if the writer can truly hear the voice of a character, so will the reader. what does the author explicitly say can be found in the voice of a character?

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The question seems to be ''What does the author explicitly say can be found in the voice of a character?''

Well, firstly, what does explicitly means? Explicitly means in a clear and transparent mannerism. Thus this question is asking us, what does the author clearly mean and state about what could be found in a voice of a character?

Let's look at answer B, 'place'. Well, it says in the beginning of the excerpt that, "Yet deeper than character, or even place, is another concept: voice.''

The question asks what the author defines that can be found in a voice of a character. So, why would it be place if the author explicitly defines that the voice is deeper than any given place? Exactly.

Following that sentence, it states that it's simply more than any doorway... So that throws doorway out the same way 'place' was. The author says it's MORE to it. It isn't merely a doorway or a place.

And lastly, we have ancients. Actually, ancients isn't the answer to this problem. Ancients actually GIVES us an answer. Ancients believed in what? Ancients ideologies of a voice within a character was a SOUL. Correct? What is a synonym of 'soul'? Essence, spirit, spiritual, ect.

Therefore our answer would inevitably be Spirit. This sentence also backs up our conclusion:

''That is wholly appropriate, for in the breath—the voice—of a character lies its essential spirit.''

You were correct. The answer is in fact, 'D'.

Answer from: elijah1090

D) The reader will always hear it. hope this helps even though its way too late

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Answer from: Quest

When you love somebody and you love a person.

Answer from: Quest

in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!