Question

For the growers, time truly was money.

The only way to make a lot of sugar is to engineer a system in which an army of workers swarms through the fields, cuts the cane, and hauls the pile to be crushed into a syrup that flows into the boiling room. There, laboring around the clock, workers cook and clean the bubbling liquid so that the sweetest syrup turns into the sweetest sugar. This is not farming the way men and women had done it for thousands of years in the Age of Honey. It is much more like a factory, where masses of people must do every step right, on time, together, or the whole system collapses.

–Sugar Changed the World,
Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos

How do the authors support their claim and purpose with word choice?

by using imagery that appeals to the sense of sound
by repeating the words sugar, syrup, and sweetest
by including words with mostly positive connotations
by using descriptive words that entertain readers

Answer 1

by repeating the words sugar, syrup, and sweetest

The repeated use of those words emphasizes the focus on producing sugar and highlights how everything in the system is organized around making the sweetest product.