Question

What type of language convention has the author used to separate the declarative sentence from the disruptive phrase in this excerpt from "Totally like whatever, you know?"

"Declarative sentences—so--called
because they used to, like, DECLARE things to be true, okay,
as opposed to other things are, like, totally, you know, not—
have been infected by a totally hip
and tragically cool interrogative tone?"

a
Commas

b
Question mark

c
Capitalization

d
Em dashes

Answer 1

what do you think the answer is based on the passage?

Answer 2

@Vocaloid

Answer 3

I'll help.

Answer 4

Oh okay, thank you @Imagine offering to help.

Answer 5

Okay,
can you eliminate anything?
Or are you stuck?

Answer 6

Yes,in fact I know that it is not letter choice a.Though,I am overall stuck between if it is either choice c or d as the answer overall.

Answer 7

Mind explaining why you got rid of a,b?

Answer 8

For a, I had originally thought that was my answer being correct,but I think it was incorrect,though,I was unable to check it as correct or incorrect. Aside from that,for b,I just feel it is not correct,though,I could be wrong.

Answer 9

Okay, that's okay.
You eliminated the wrong choices anyway.
Why do you think C.) ?

Answer 10

Why I think it is c,well because of how possibly it adds more tone to the type of language being needed to separate the declarative sentence in such ways.

Answer 11

And D.) ?

Answer 12

As for d,It could be that the em dashes totally separate the disruptive sentence on how the language of convention being portrayed while read,and so on?

Answer 13

Okay, do we see much capitalization separating the disruptive sentence?

Answer 14

I mean only once , so not really in terms of the question asked,I would say.

Answer 15

How about the em dashes?

Answer 16

Well there is quite a few of the em dashes being presented.....so,maybe?

Answer 17

That's what I would go with, I hope It helped.