“Scent” vs. “Stench”: Both words mean “smell,” but Scent is often used to describe good smells (flowers, baked goods, etc.) while Stench connotes a negative smell.

中国大学MOOC:“Scent”vs.“Stench”:Bothwordsmean“smell,”butScentisoftenusedtodescribegoodsmells(flowers,bakedgoods,etc.)whileStenchconnotesanegativesmell.

“You ask me: what is poverty? Listen to me. Here I am, dirty, smelly, and with no ‘proper’underwear on and with the stench of my rotting teeth near you. I will tell you.Listen to me. Listen without pity. I cannot use your pity. Listen with understanding. Put yourself in my dirty, worn out, ill-fitting shoes, and hear me. "… Poverty is looking into a black future. Your children won’t play with my boys. They will turn to other boys who steal to get what they want. I can already see them behind the bars of their prison insteadof behind the bars of my poverty. Or they will turn to the freedom of alcoholor drugs, and find themselves enslaved. And my daughter? At best, there is forher a life like mine…” (From "What Is Poverty?" by Jo Goodwin Parker in J. Chaffee, ed.,CriticalThinking, Thoughtful Writing, 2nd ed., 347-350) What perspective does the writer use to define poverty?  A: First-person narrator B: Second-person narrator C: Third-person narrator D: None of the above