Read the excerpts from “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry” and “Speaking Arabic.” My friend had concluded that if he took his language and culture out of his poetry, he stood a better chance of receiving a fellowship. He took out his native language, the poetic patois of our reality, the rich mixture of Spanish, English, pachuco and street talk which we know so well. In other words, he took the tortillas out of his poetry, which is to say he took the soul out of his poetry. At a neighborhood fair in Texas, somewhere between the German Oom-pah Sausage Stand and the Mexican Gorditas booth, I overheard a young man say to his friend, “I wish I had a heritage. Sometimes I feel—so lonely for one.” And the tall American trees were dangling their thick branches right down over his head. Which best states how the word choice is similar in both excerpts? Each author uses non-English words and figurative language. Each author uses technical words and neutral language. Each author uses nonsense words and invented language. Each author uses confrontational words and persuasive language.

Alfred Hitchcock is discussing the concept of letting the audience ‘play God.’ in the sense of a complete understanding of the stories and characters.

He uses an example of a murder mystery movie to convey his belief of puzzling of the audience not being equivalent to creating suspense within the viewer. He states "One of the characters, a young man, is standing in a shadowy room ... if the audience does not know whether the young man himself is a killer or a hero they will not know whether to cheer or weep. If the audience does know, if they have been told all the secrets that the characters do not know, they'll work like the devil for you because they know what fate is facing the poor actors." He also uses the example of Rope, a movie filmed at Warner Brothers. "[Rope] stars James Stewart with Joan Chandler, our new discovery, in the feminine lead. ... The audience knows everything from the start, the players know nothing. There is not a single detail to puzzle the audience. It certainly is not a whodunit for the simple reason that everyone out front knows who did it. ... The fact that the audience watches actors go blithely through an atmosphere that is loaded with evil makes for real suspense."

Explanation:

Basically, Alfred believes that suspense is created when an audience understands the characters and the scenario rather than pure mystery in the whodunit sense.