1. Linda Chavez is trying to highlight how crucial it is for the public to remain under control during the speeches that are now being held after all that has happened. The people who are in the audience listening to these conversations need to be able to control themselves despite differing opinions so that no one in the audience or the person giving the speech are not injured.
2. Bellicose implies warlike or hostile nature. She used this word to describe the words that some poeple believe actually take literally and think that they have to act this way, but Chavez believes that using these such words add emotion to a speech.
3. A) She is trying to persuade the reader to think that bellicose words are not the reasons why people have been acting so violently lately, and that these words add emotion.
B) "The very term "campaign" comes from the French word for open land, compagne, and was used in English to refer to the time spent on the battlefield or to a series of distinct military maneuvers. We routinely talk about "rounds" in political debates, though the word can also describe a unit of ammunition. When we say a candidate "took his best shot," we don't mean he aimed a gun at his opponent. Nor does "firing a shot across the bow" mean anything more than issuing a strong warning. Such rhetorical devices enrich our language and putting them off-limits would deprive us of the ability to express ourselves fully."
4. I agree with chavez's article. I think that taking away these words would make speechs boring and poeple would lose focus and not want to listening or read them anymore.
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