Introspection is the mental process shown mainly in autobiographies in which the writer analyzes and formulates a judgment of his or her mental state. It is a self-declaration of one’s own mental or cognitive either decline or progress.
In this excerpt from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin the two sentences that show the narrator's introspection are:
<em>“In truth, I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.”</em>
<em>“But, on the whole, tho' I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it; as those who aim at perfect writing by imitating the engraved copies, tho' they never reach the wish'd-for excellence of those copies, their hand is mended by the endeavor, and is tolerable while it continues fair and legible.”</em>
The first two sentences from the first paragraph are the ones that show introspection best.
The first statement because it contains a brief information about the importance of coral reefs in the environment and on other living things that rely on it to live.
Answer
statements about a culture's institutions
Explanation
Social commentary includes the idea of implementing or promoting change by informing the general populace about a given problem and appealing to people's sense of justice.It contains series of comments and explanations about the cultures.
Answer: A) a comparison between the sea and a cauldron, and B) a visual representation of the sea’s anger.
Explanation: A simile is a figure of speech that consists in the comparison of two things that aren't obviously similar between each other, it has the function of create an image that helps to better understand the text or passage. In this case, the excerpt presents the simile "...all the sea was like a cauldron seething over intense fire, when the mixture suddenly heaves and rises", comparing the sea with a cauldron in a fire, which gives the reader an image that represents the anger of the sea.
