<span>Muir's use of diction creates a mood of urgency and fear. The highlighted words - difficult, difficult, force, crooked, struggling, tangled, fallen, fear, faint and hungry - come together to make you feel that the author is in danger. The imagery is clear so that it comes alive in your mind. Diction can help create a mood which can help bring everything else together.
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(A) The effect of the earthquake that caused most of Port Royal to sink into the Caribbean was
Explanation:
This is the sentence that most clearly expresses the idea that the author wants to convey. This sentence includes all the necessary details of the first section of the sentence. It also employs active voice. Finally, the sentence relies on simple, action-driven language that captures the attention of the reader without losing the meaning of the passage.
Answer:
#1="Wild and Wicked","Chaos,Commotion,and often Catastraphe","Devastating Destruction"
#2=The alliteration inproves the passage by describing how devastating hurricanes are.
#3="These tropical storms are about 2,000 times wider, wickeder and wounding than tornados."
<span>d. to lend credibility and additional support to their conclusion
The missing quotation was:
</span><span>"If morality represents the way we would like the world to work and economics represents how it actually does work, then the story of Feldman's bagel business lies at the very intersection of morality and economics. Yes, a lot of people steal from him, but the vast majority, even though no is watching over them, do not. This outcome may surprise some people—including Feldman's economist friends, who counseled him twenty years ago that his honor-system scheme would never work. But it would not have surprised Adam Smith. In fact, theme of Smith's first book, the Theory of Moral Sentiments, was the innate honesty of mankind. "How selfish soever man may be supposed," Smith wrote, "there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it."</span>
