Rhetorical Analysis.
What Kind of diction dose the author use in this excerpt "The Cybertruck—or CYBPRFRVKK, according to its illegible branding image, which looks like a white suburban teenager’s first hesitant attempt at tagging the local Red Robin—is due to be released today".
A) Passive Aggressive, B) Abstract, C) Sarcastic, D) Informal
What is, C) Sarcastic
"...still no official information about price or battery capacity doesn’t bode well..." In this context, what dose the word 'capacity' mean?
What is, the amount of energy stored in something.
What could be inferred about the author of this article?
1) They are bias because they hate Elon Musk.
2) They are bias because they do not compare the Cyber truck to other Vehicles.
3) They are not bias because they provide factual evidence.
4) They are not bias because they provide dates and statistics about the trucks materials.
What is, 2) They are bias because they do not compare the Cyber truck to other Vehicles.
In the introduction (First paragraph) what immediate evidence dose the author provide as to why the Cyber truck is a failure.
What is: "...company has spent over four years and billions retooling its factories to make it", (or) "...looks like a white suburban teenager’s first hesitant attempt at tagging the local Red Robin."
Who is the intended Audience in this Article?
A) Elon Musk,
B) Car Making Companies,
C) The Manufacturers of the car,
D) Potential buyers of the car
What is D) Potential buyers of the car
"Tesla has had to cut the sheets with lasers and bend them into shape, which is undoubtedly more expensive." In this context, what dose 'Undoubtedly' mean?
What is, Certainty.
Something is missing from the first body paragraph, what is it?
What is a reliable source?
Who was the first to experimented with stainless steel in the mid-20th century?
Who is Henry Ford?
What is the purpose of this excerpt, "And while stainless steel is resistant to dents, that also means that if it is dented it is difficult and costly to repair."
It acknowledges the other side of the argument and rebuts it by providing a counter argument.
In this excerpt, "The chromium and nickel alloys typically used to make steel stainless.." what dose the word 'alloy' mean?
A metal formed by combining two or more metals.
"And while stainless steel is resistant to dents, that also means that if it is dented it is difficult and costly to repair." Why is this statement important to the rest of the paragraph?
To reinforce the main idea of the paragraph that the truck is more expensive than other vehicles.
Why are chromium and Nickle alloys used to make stainless steel?
To make it resistant to corrosion/rust.
What is the syntax of this statement, "Musk’s boasts of a Cybertruck “exoskeleton,” if true, are a recipe for gruesome carnage."
Because of the hard exoskeleton and the evidence provided in the exit paragraph, we can infer that people will be hurt much more than if they were in a different car.
In this excerpt "...that is, resistant to corrosion..." What dose the word 'corrosion' mean?
The degradation of a metal due to its reacting with it's environment.
Why is this sentence not helpful to the main idea?
"Third and perhaps most importantly, stainless steel is much stiffer than the ordinary stuff..."
It dose not specify the other options other than stainless steel.
Why, in early tests, were test dummies injured?
The material was made to take less damage therefore, the damage went to the test dummies.