Identify the excerpt that displays an overtly polemical and subjective tone rather than an objective academic register:
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. This reckless economic policy is a brazen betrayal of workers engineered by corrupt oligarchs.
Answer: This reckless economic policy is a brazen betrayal of workers engineered by corrupt oligarchs. Why not the others: The remaining statements maintain measured, evidence-based, neutral academic vocabulary and objective syntax.
- Step 1: Define 'polemical': expressing a passionate, vitriolic attack or partisan invective rather than dispassionate analysis.
- Step 2: Describing an economic policy as a 'reckless... brazen betrayal of workers engineered by corrupt oligarchs' contains emotionally charged, pejorative epithets, indicating an overtly polemical tone.
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