A superior robot

Why does Powell have sympathy for Cutie?

Because...

• He showed curiosity

• He was not like the ordinary robot

• He was like a strange machine

• He was cold and hard to the touch

Why does Powell describe Cutie as a 'skeptic'?

Because..

• he was called walking junk yard

• he refused what he was told

• he was a lunatic robot

• he didn't get any explanation

In line 49-52, the writer describes Cutie's humming. What effect does his description of the robot performing such a 'human' action create? choose best 2 answers!

• the sense of being innately human

• sophisticated technology attached in the robot

• displaying human behaviours that is not talking or moving

• the sense of feeling like a human being

Why is Donovan alarmed by Cutie's level of enquiry and 'inquisitiveness'? choose the most impossible answer!!

• He might worry that Cutie becomes too powerful

• He felt uneasy that Cutie gets too smart

• He might worry that Cutie becomes uncontrollable

• He feels nervous to be enquired by Cutie

Read 'language tip' of page 118 of your textbook. Which do you think that is alliteration?

• sudden strong sympathy

• infinite emptiness

• sputtered apple fragment

• curious twanging quality

Choose the assonance from the following phrases!

• infinite emptiness

• positronic path

• the red glow of the robot

• sizzling saturn

Which is not consonance from the choices below?

• My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

• The Negro Speaks of Rivers

• How now, brown cow

• Flash, dash, crash

What 'literary device' is this clause, "that these dots shift and that the beams shift with them"?

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance