Why does the narrator insist that 'a suspicious elephant should not be underestimated', immediately after warning the reader that 'elephants don’t like to be trapped'?
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[Author's Purpose / Rhetorical Function]
The phrase ‘It’s just not the same’ appears in quotation marks as the elephant’s internal thought. What function does this stylistic choice serve in the argumentative structure of the passage?
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[Author's Purpose / Stylistic Function]
When the narrator states, ‘all elephant herds tend to look alike. It might be tricky to find his family again because they will have moved on in search of new food’, what underlying assumption does this claim rely upon?
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[Author's Assumption / Implicit Premise]
The juxtaposition of ‘FRAGILE V医BS!星ED LOAD’—a typographically fractured, multilingual, semiotically overloaded sign—against the serene image of ‘wild rivers in Africa’ serves primarily to:
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[Author's Purpose / Contrast Function]
The shift from imperative verbs (‘you must go’, ‘you must set a trap’, ‘you will have to be quick’) to descriptive, empathetic verbs (‘he will look sadly’, ‘he will refuse to eat’, ‘you will have to call’) marks a turning point in the narrator’s stance. What does this syntactic evolution reveal about the narrator’s developing ethical position?
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[Author's Attitude / Structural Function]
The narrator concludes, ‘And in the end. You would realize how happy animals are living wild and free.’ Why is the modal verb ‘would’—rather than ‘will’ or ‘do’—crucial to the epistemological claim being made?
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[Vocabulary in Context / Modal Function]
The phrase ‘he will not look magnificent anymore’ directly reverses the earlier imperative ‘Notice how magnificent he is…’. What rhetorical effect does this inversion achieve?
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[Author's Purpose / Structural Function]
The narrator lists alternatives—‘a lion. Or even a rhinoceros. Or a zebra.’—only to dismiss them with ‘it isn’t so’. What conceptual work does this rhetorical tripling perform?
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[Author's Purpose / Stylistic Function]
The final image—‘watch him walk away across the endless plains, back home in Africa where he belongs’—employs ‘endless plains’ rather than a geographically precise term like ‘Serengeti’ or ‘Sahel’. Why is this abstraction significant?
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[Vocabulary in Context / Symbolic Function]
The narrator asserts that ‘if you love him, you have to let him go’. What kind of love does this sentence presuppose—one defined by possession, care, sacrifice, or recognition?