“So we may know our broken hearts are not alone . . .” is an example of a writer’s use of ______________, while “Burt’s Bees lip balm” shows a marketing strategy that uses ______________ to attract consumers.

(a)  

Her sense of activism was forged within the (a)   of the Civil Rights era of the 1960s.

The pages are thick with (a)   , in which Conrad describes dark and  impenetrable jungle, dangerous animals and bothersome insects, and intolerable heat and humidity.

(a)   is the art of saying something while suggesting something else.

He was expert at changing his (a)   on a dime, cheerful and witty in one instant, dark and pensive in the next.

Having nothing but ____________ for the entire system, she would openly  ___________ her political adversaries in her many published writings.

(a)  

The acceptability of using a (a)   or two when we speak doesn’t mean that the practice is equally acceptable when we write, especially when we are engaged in academic writing.

Abigail was much given to (a)   , and one never knew where one stood with her, or whether her smiles were genuine or her anger was real.

Nevertheless, she appeared to be quite (a)   over the misplacement of her umbrella by the servant.

It was this that was her (a)   : her inability to get others to take her seriously when matters at hand demanded it.

Dickens’s (a)   of Miss Havisham in Great Expectations was that of a bitter, conniving old woman who wished to take revenge on the entire male population because of injury caused to her by one man.