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In the radio broadcast War of the Worlds, how did Orson Welles change the novel to better fit the new medium of radio?

A. By using simpler words and shorter sentences
B. By having an independent narrator retell events
C. By showing pictures from an actual invasion
D. By pretending that a Martian attack was really underway

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By using simpler words and shorter sentences

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Answer:

A. By using simpler words and shorter sentences

Step-by-step explanation:

Readers and radio listeners are many times not the same people. People who read constantly might be used to harder words and clever wordplay. To adapt to the radio, the language was changed into a more everyday sort of language. That way, it became easier for the listeners to grasp what was going on even if the radio was just background noise.

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