Is Survival Selfish?

to praise or glorify

the securing of a rope to a cleat or another object

criticized very severely

made motionless by completely focused attention

harshly cutting someone down with words;

to scold vehemently

an official rule or proclamation

to record an event as it happens

• chronicle

• berate

• savage

• transfix

the author's word choice is called

• tone

• mood

• diction

• excerpt

a passage selected from a larger work

• chapter

• excerpt

• passage

• novel

a person's memory of his or her life that is written with a creative view of the past

• biography

• excerpt

• memoir

• essay