Please read this and answer the question. This is for 20 points.

"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace"

By Richard Brautigan

I like to think (and

the sooner the better!)

of a cybernetic meadow

where mammals and computers

live together in mutually

programming harmony

like pure water

touching clear sky.

I like to think

(right now, please!)

of a cybernetic forest

filled with pines and electronics

where deer stroll peacefully

past computers

as if they were flowers

with spinning blossoms.

I like to think

(it has to be!)

of a cybernetic ecology

where we are free of our labors

and joined back to nature,

returned to our mammal

brothers and sisters,

and all watched over

by machines of loving grace.

The statements, "and the sooner the better!" and "it has to be!" from "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" develop the speaker as

Aconversational
Bindirect
Curgent
Dvague

The best option would be that the statements, "and the sooner the better!" and "it has to be!" all contribute to the speaker coming across as being "urgent", since these phrases are associated with impatience.

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cristyrazo cristyrazo · Answer 2 · 2019-03-05T12:17:21-05:00

The statements, "and the sooner the better!" and "it has to be!" connote a sense of urgency, as if the author wants the actions depicted to occur now and not later, this is further conveyed by the use of exclamation marks in both phrases. So the correct answer would be option C: "urgent". Options A, C and D are incorrect because those statements don't convey a conversational tone, and they are not vague or indirect, quite the contrary.