Comparing Argumentative Texts: Silent Spring and "Save the Redwoods"

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Which words and phrases from the excerpt best support

the author's purpose of creating a sense of alarm about the

environment? Select four options.

Read the excerpt from Silent Spring

Yet every one of these disasters has actually happened

somewhere, and many real communities have already

suffered a substantial number of them. A grim specter has

crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy

may easily become a stark reality we all shall know.

these disasters

actually

happened

grim specter

almost unnoticed

tragedy

stark reality

which words create a sense of alarm