Question

Read the excerpt from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.

“Tenente,” Passini said. “We understand you let us talk. Listen. There is nothing as bad as war. We in the auto-ambulance cannot even realize at all how bad it is. When people realize how bad it is they cannot do anything to stop it because they go crazy. There are some people who never realize. There are people who are afraid of their officers. It is with them the war is made.”

In typical Hemingway style, the excerpt
contains a number of abstract nouns and many adjectives.
contains a large amount of punctuation and few adjectives and adverbs.
contains many strong nouns and adjectives but few verbs and adverbs.
contains few adjectives and adverbs but many strong verbs and concrete nouns.

Answer 1

The correct answer is contains few adjectives and adverbs but many strong verbs and concrete nouns.

Hemingway was famous for writing in short sentences that didn't have many adjectives or adverbs.

Answer 2

Answer: D) contains few adjectives and adverbs but many strong verbs and concrete nouns.

Step-by-step explanation: In the given excerpt from Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" we can see a clear example of Hemingway's typical style of writing, that is characterized by the use of many strong verbs and concrete nouns, but using just few (the necessary) adjectives and adverbs. In the excerpt he uses strong verbs like "listen" and "realize" and we can also see that the sentences are short with little modifiers.