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Read the excerpt from "Remarks by the President on Osama bin Laden."
And yet we know that the worst images are those that were unseen to the world. The empty seat at the dinner table. Children who were
forced to grow up without their mother or their father. Parents who would never know the feeling of their child's embrace. Nearly 3,000
citizens taken from us, leaving a gaping hole in our hearts.
Obama uses a series of sentence fragments in the excerpt. What does this syntax enable Obama to do?
Remarks by the President on Osama bin Laden
O minimize the families' pain to calm the audience's fears about terrorism
mention a series of scenes that illustrate the broad impact of this event
undermine the argument that terrorism is a complex problem in modern society
O reflect the hazy nature of the memories of many Americans about this event in the distant past