TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to write a single word that describes the genre that the two sentences belong to, such as face-to-face, government, letters, 9/11, slate, telephone, travel, verbatim, oup, fiction.
PROBLEM: Sentence 1: that's pretty impressive Sentence 2: That is lame.

SOLUTION: telephone

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: The South that is triumphant now, concludes Applebome, is one that both Grizzard and neo-Confederates would celebrate, a place of feel-good nostalgia, easy answers, and painless solutions, forever looking backward through a pale mist and seeing only the soft focus outlines of what it wants to see. Sentence 2: Some neo-Confederates see the larger picture of what the past outlines and its implications on modern-day society.

SOLUTION: slate

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: and they have a giant bin by the front door for the plastic bags and they say you know as long as it's clean they don't want a plastic bag that's full of goop Sentence 2: The plastic bags go in a pile on the ground and they don't need to be clean.

SOLUTION:
telephone