Lives of Commitment: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Question 7 • CA-Expository Reading and Writing B
atrocious: adj. terribly brutal, barbaric, or especially horrifyingBased on the passage and the definition of atrocious, what effect does that word have that the word bad would not?
Answer
A
Atrocious explains how extreme the cruelty was beyond the idea that it was bad.
B
Atrocious provides less information about the cruelty than the word bad would.
C
Atrocious and bad would both affect the reader, but bad would be more specific.