The central idea was freedom. In her story, Philis convey the struggle that American people has to acchieve it and how she supported George's Washington effort to fight and obtain it. She simply talks about him being a symbol of a hero and that she's sure he was going to win the war. The tone of the letter seems to be earnest and heartwarming
The statement, "The fabric was as pleasant to the touch as ice cream is to the tongue," analogy is comparing touching the fabric to eating the ice cream. The statement means they both are very pleasant and nice. Touching the fabric and eating the ice cream gives the person pleasure.
Answer:
The correct option described second is <em>"The tone is the same, but the word choice is less formal, probably for a younger reading audience."</em>
Explanation:
Replacing <em>"of the Victorian era"</em> with <em>"during a period of time known as the Victorian era" </em>shows less formality and a bit more explanation for younger readers.
Also <em>"distinguished" </em>is replaced with <em>"respected"</em> which is less formal and easier to be understood by younger readers.
The replacement of <em>"Her poetry influenced ..... and Emily Dickinson"</em> in first version with this long sentence <em>"Her poetry was very ............. by Ms. Browning"</em> in second version reduces formality to make it easier to understand for younger audience.
The best revision of the modifier "badly" in the sentence 5 is "bad" : She felt <em>bad</em> that someone had lost such a nice watch. The word badly is an <em>adverb</em>, the word that modifies other words and verbs: <em>badly made furniture ; she was treated very badly. </em>In this sentence (modified)<em>, </em>the word<em> bad </em>is an<em> adjective </em>that follows a <em>linking verb</em> "<em>felt."</em>
The facts that are told at the end of the story are in sharp contrast to those that unleash the tragedy that Desiree and her son have to live. Only in the last few lines we discover that her husband knows the true cause of the dark color of the child's skin, which derives from the color of his own mother and has nothing to do with the unknown facts that cover the real origin of Desiree, since his filiation was not known from the beggining.
The irony is graphed in the fact that Desiree's husband could not have ignored that his mother was a dark-skinned woman, as he lived with her for the first eight years of his life and in addition to that, in the end, we also got to know that he was in possession of that letter that informed him the truth, in the probably event that he had forgotten it over the years.
The mistreatment he gave to his slaves was then the most important contradiction, although we can observe that his character softens after the birth of his son, even so having to see him daily was probably a permanent reminder of a shame he was trying to leave behind.
