Cartoon.Last month, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior proposed adding the polar bear polar bear, large white bear, Ursus maritimus, formerly Thalarctos maritimus, of the coasts of arctic North America. Polar bears usually live on drifting pack ice, but sometimes wander long distances inland. to the threatened-species list. This cartoon uses hyperbole hyperbole (hīpûr`bəlē), a figure of speech in which exceptional exaggeration is deliberately used for emphasis rather than deception. (hy-PUR-buh-lee)--an extreme exaggeration--to comment on the reasons why. Study it, then answer the questions. 1. What is happening to the polar bear's natural habitat? 2. How has record-warm weather (see p. 4) contributed to the polar bear's predicament? 3. What is hyperbolic hy·per·bol·ic also hy·per·bol·i·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or employing hyperbole. 2. Mathematics a. Of, relating to, or having the form of a hyperbola. b. about how the cartoonist shows this? 4. What feeling does the bear's face express? 5. How would you reply to the bear? ANSWERS 1. It's melting and disappearing. 2. Record-warm temperatures are speeding the melting. 3. The only ice shown at the North Pole North Pole, northern end of the earth's axis, lat. 90°N. It is distinguished from the north magnetic pole. U.S. explorer Robert E. Peary is traditionally credited as being the first to reach (1909) the North Pole. In 1926, Richard E. is cubes in a tray, the kind made artificially in refrigerator freezers. 4. dismay, anxiety (other answers acceptable) 5. Answers will vary. |
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