The correct answer for this question is this one: "Setting." As you read the passage, it describes what is in the setting: It is evident on this line, "<span>At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris."
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The passage above is taken from the book of Edgar Allan Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado."
Answer: An explanation of the world origin.
Explanation: A distinguishing characteristics of a myth is an explanation of the world origin. A myth is a classic story that usually explain mysteries of nature with no true basis in fact.
Myth are present in every culture, myth are not necessarily true. They are used by humans to explain mankind history, natural phenomenon, and some life mysteries.
An example of a myth is a woman in the Bible who turned to a pillar of salt for looking backward.
Ask someone else to drive you home, do not drive under the influence.
I would say that the intended meaning of that hyperbole is that <span>the speaker thinks that the colonists are being unfairly treated by the British government</span>
