Question

Read the excerpt from The Hot Zone. The line of cars followed behind two unmarked military vehicles. One was a supply van and the other was a snow-white ambulance. It was an unmarked Level 4 biocontainment ambulance. Inside it there were an Army medical-evacuation team and a biocontainment pod known as a bubble stretcher. This was a combat medical stretcher enclosed by a biocontainment bubble made of clear plastic. If someone was bitten by a monkey, he would go into the bubble, and from there he would be transferred to the Slammer. The supply van was a white unmarked refrigerator truck. This was to hold dead monkeys and tubes of blood. The jargon in this excerpt makes the text sound

suspenseful and makes it more enjoyable.
authentic and allows it to be taken seriously.
creative and helps it to remain interesting.
truthful and helps it to be more convincing.

Answer 1

Answer: authentic and allows it to be taken seriously.

In this excerpt, we find a lot of jargon related to the way people deal with contamination in medical and military settings. Although most readers would be unaware of whether the jargon is real or not, the use of this vocabulary makes the text sound more authentic. Therefore, it is easier for the reader to take the text, and the author, seriously, and to assume that he knows what he is talking about.

Answer 2

The jargon in this excerpt makes the text sound authentic and allows it to be taken seriously.

Jargon words makes text sound sophisticated however, these words seem not to be easily understood by most of the readers, thus sometimes results to miscommunication.