Read the paragraph from a student's critical analysis essay In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson talks about independence through his use of big words
and fancy argument skills. First, Jefferson states his thesis, which makes it seem important that the colonists
get independence. Next, Jefferson gives evidence against the king of England and how he mistreats the
American colonies. Finally, Jefferson suggests that colonists should stop paying taxes and fight, which is the
obvious answer to the colonists' problems.
What is the best way for the student to revise the essay?
O The student should replace familiar language with more accessible language.
O The student should replace scholarly language with informal language.
O The student should replace formal language with more familiar language
O The student should replace informal language with formal language

Select the correct text in the passage. which line in this excerpt from amy tan's "mother tongue" shows that tan changes her language depending on the audience? i was giving a talk to a large group of people, the same talk i had already given to half a dozen other groups. the talk was about my writing, my life, and my book, the joy luck club, and it was going along well enough, until i remembered one major difference that made the whole talk sound wrong. my mother was in the room. and it was perhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kind of english i have never used with her. i was saying things like "the intersection of memory upon imagination" and "there is an aspect of my fiction that relates to thus-and-thus"—a speech filled with carefully wrought grammatical phrases, burdened, it suddenly seemed to me, with nominalized forms, past perfect tenses, conditional phrases, forms of standard english that i had learned in school and through books…