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Difficulty: EasyMeeting Specific Rhetorical Goals

In 1930, Ruth Wakefield was preparing cookies at the Toll House Inn when she decided to chop up a bar of semi-sweet chocolate and add it to her dough. She expected the chocolate to melt completely, but instead, the small pieces retained their shape, [blank].

The writer wants to complete the sentence by choosing an option that emphasizes that the new cookies were immediately popular among the inn's visitors. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?

  1. A
    saving her time during a busy afternoon in the kitchen
  2. B
    showing that she could adapt when she ran out of traditional baker's chocolate
  3. delighting the inn's guests, who eagerly devoured the entire batchAnswer
  4. D
    the guests loved the treats, they ate them immediately

Answer

delighting the inn's guests, who eagerly devoured the entire batch
The correct choice best fulfills the rhetorical goal by directly describing the positive reaction of the guests ('delighting') and their enthusiasm for the cookies ('eagerly devoured the entire batch'). It is also grammatically correct.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the rhetorical goal stated in the prompt.
The prompt asks for an option that emphasizes that the new cookies were immediately popular among the inn's visitors.
This establishes the criteria by which we must evaluate the choices.
2
Evaluate the choices against the identified rhetorical goal.
The option about saving time focuses on kitchen efficiency, and the option about adapting focuses on resourcefulness. Only the option describing the guests' delight and devouring the batch, and the option stating that the guests loved the treats, focus on popularity.
This eliminates options that do not meet the rhetorical requirement.
3
Check the remaining choices for grammatical correctness.
The option stating that the guests loved the treats is a comma splice, which is grammatically incorrect. The option describing the guests' delight and devouring the batch is grammatically correct.
The correct answer must be grammatically correct in addition to meeting the rhetorical goal.

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Meeting Specific Rhetorical Goals
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