11. What is "the hook" in a Whats is “the hook” in a text? the final paragraph

what gets the reader's attention

the ways ideas develop

the way the text is organized

what gets the reader's attention

Explanation:

The hook is the first sentence of a text that's purpose is to interest readers. The hook should be catchy or intriguing so that the readers want to continue reading the text. Without a hook, it is likely that readers will simply never read a text because they don't see any reason to or don't want to.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.