Answer:[A]nd though, [Crusoe's father] said, he would not cease to pray for me, yet he would venture to say to me that if I did take this foolish step, God would not bless me (3).
Explanation:
What...? Is this a detention assignment?
I'm going to go with A.
Choice B makes it sounds like Josephine is reading to an actual whale about children.
Choice C just sounds wayyy too cluttered when read aloud.
And choice D, it's not written correctly.
We can infer an author's attitude toward a subject through his or her use of imagery. The author's attitude toward a subject is also known as tone. The word choices Twain made when writing this passage make his attitude about laziness clear.
Consider the connotation (the feeling) of the words used in the passage. The houses were "old" and "shackly" (like shacks). These words do not have a positive connotation. They make the reader think of old and rundown things.
The gardens raise nothing but weeds and ash. Ashes are the remains of a fire -- something dead. The gardens are also littered old shoes, broken glass, rags, and other trash. Pigs often enter the garden because the people have not erected a fence good enough to keep them out. When the reader imagines this scene, the effect is sad and pathetic, for there is no reason not to pick up one's trash.
The fences likely hadn't been fixed since the time of Columbus, a few hundred years earlier. While this is likely exaggeration, the point is the same. These people are truly lazy and live in filth as a result.
From Twain's imagery and word choices, it is clear that Twain's opinion of laziness is a negative one. He sees laziness as a sign of moral decay, as evidenced by words like "ash," "played out" and broken glass.
This sentence does not contain the parallel structure.
<span>My sisters always bicker over who gets to drive the car, wear the newest dress, and having the best boyfriend.
</span>Parallel structure<span> or parallelism is defined as the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence.
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In the above sentence the phrase that should be parallel are "drive the car", "wear the newest dres", and "having the best boyfriend". The usage is inconsistent and it creates confusion.
The sentence using the correct parallel structure reads like this:
<span>My sisters always bicker over who gets to drive the car, wear the newest dress, and have the best boyfriend.
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"having" is the present participle form of have. The term "have" is used to refer to a possession or belonging.
