<span>The excerpt claims that Johnson’s work is significant because he searched literature and found more words.
The excerpt says how at the time there weren't enough dictionaries, or rather there weren't enough words in those dictionaries. This is why Johnson took it upon himself to scroll through countless books in search of new words, which he later added into his dictionary, published in 1755.
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Answer: A) Instead of horses pulling carriages full of people, people pull carriages full of horses.
Explanation: an irony is a state of affairs or an event that seems contrary to what one expects and it often has an amusing result. A situational irony is when what happens is the contrary to what the characters or the audience are expecting to happen. From the given options, the sentence that describes an example of situational irony in Gulliver's Travels, is the corresponding to option A, because it is the contrary of what one would expect.
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Balboa's motivation is what allows your adventure to begin. This affects the story's storyline because it stops being a biography and becomes an adventure story, leaving the storyline more impolent and even positive, because the reader is enthusiastic about accompanying a character motivated to pursue his goals within of the holding.
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Balboa is a briography of explorer Vasco nuñes de Balboa written by Sir Ronald Syme. In this biography, the explorer's great achievements and his objectives in relation to navigation, exploration and wealth are counted. Syme wrote the biography based on Balboa's motivation, which made the plot seem like an extremely exciting and thought-provoking adventure story.
The line in this excerpt that uses the logical fallacy of ad hominem is this one: "The police, as usual, were as friendly as could be, but, because of the complaint, we had to turn down the volume." Ad hominem refers to the <span>logical fallacy in which an argument is rebutted by attacking the character</span>
The correct answer is B!! :)
