PrepTest 116, Section 1, Question 10
In many bilingual communities of Puerto Rican Americans(435 more words not shown)
Based on the passage, which(11 more words not shown)
- AA speaker who(21 more words not shown)
- BA person translating(23 more words not shown)
- CFor the purpose(27 more words not shown)
- DA speaker who(13 more words not shown)
- EA speaker who(18 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
For emphasis. That's the rhetorical reason the family gives: Spanish can make intimacy or humor come across more strongly. Look for a switch that changes the expressive effect, rather than just any plausible reason to use another language.
Working the answers
- A
This speaker lacks a needed word. Switching fills a vocabulary gap; it isn't described as making the expression more emphatic.
- B
This is written translation, not switching languages within a conversation. Keeping an invented word also doesn't give us the expressive purpose we're looking for.
- C
The businessperson accommodates customers' language preferences to improve sales. That concerns the people involved and the business situation. We aren't told the second language makes the expression itself more forceful.
- DCorrect
A language that sounds more expressive matches using Spanish “more emphatically.” The speaker mainly uses one language, then changes to the other for its effect on what they're saying.
- E
Maintaining fluency is a reasonable goal, but it isn't the rhetorical goal described here. This speaker wants to keep a skill, rather than make the current statement more intimate, humorous, or emphatic.
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