Answer: A - agitation
Explanation:
We noticed synonyms in the passage as it calmed down, as it was not calm; convulsively - another synonym for agitation; an intelligible prayer - with a sense of agitation.
Answer: The answers are C: "To inform readers about the ways young people are changing the world" and D: "To entertain readers with a story about high schoolers who made a change."
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The answer is:
Machiavelli forces readers to carefully consider the meanings of the words merciful and mercy.
In the passage from "The Prince," the author Niccolò Machiavelli mentions the words mercy and merciful intending to make readers contemplate their meanings with special circumspection. Thus, <em>mercy </em>is compassion towards somebody one can hurt or punish, and <em>merciful </em>means benevolent. In that respect, Machiavelli suggests that an unsympathetic ruler can preserve power rather than a compassionate one.
Irony has been used in the story where humans are compared with the animals and animals are said to have activities and characteristics like that of the humans.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Mark Twain wrote the story "The lowest animal". The style of writing this story is satirical and irony had been used in the writing of this story by Mark Twain. The tone of this story is negative.
In this story Mark Twain had compared the animals with the humans and humanity and the humans have been looked down with an experiment to compare them with the animals.
"Freakonomics" is a book written by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner (2007) in which the authors discuss the hidden side of some issues affecting us. For example, they present some interrogants such as what is more dangerous: a gun or a pool? or why do drug dealers continue to live with their mothers? Hence, they are not the typical questions asked by economics experts. In this case the given excerpt serves as evidence to support the author's argument since they use statistics taken from different years to ilustrate what the bagel data had to say.
The correct answer is EVIDENCE.