The downplaying of how we truly feel in order to be socially appropriate is referred to as

a. masking
b. intensification
c. deintensification
d. neutralization
e. none of the above


c

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If a speaker says, "We have considered the lack of an adequate number of highways in the United States; now let us turn to consider the safety of those highways," the speaker is using a

A) functional organization pattern. B) descriptive summarization pattern. C) transition. D) signpost. E) outline.

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The content with the best online growth potential is

a. emergent content such as sports and live events. b. lotteries. c. games. d. home shopping.

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What happens to the score at the climax of Taxi Driver to suggest that Travis Bickle's romantic chivalry and his seething anger are complementary mindsets?

A) a romantic jazz tune plays during the bloody shootout B) the two musical motifs running throughout the film fuse C) the score includes an intertextual reference to The Birth of a Nation D) the musical score disappears, leaving the soundtrack oddly silent during the bloody shootout

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