How can word choice reinforce stereotypes? a. stereotypes were eliminated after world war ii. b. word choice can only be used to positively describe people or events. c. word choice and stereotypes are separate ideas and never overlap in writing. d. if a writer chooses to describe a group of people with words that create a negative image or generalize characteristics of a certain group, then they reinforce stereotypes.

Read the excerpt from flannery o'connor's "the life you save may be your own although the old woman lived in this desolate spot with only her daughter and she had never seen mr. shiftlet before, she could tell, even from a distance, that he was a tramp and no one to be afraid of. his left coat sleeve was folded up to show there was only half an arm in it and his gaunt figure listed slightly. which phrase connects these characters to the southern gothic genre? half an arm she had never seen his left coat sleeve folded up