Which best states the author’s purpose for including this information in the text? to connect a historical event to the present
to bring a person involved in a historical event to life to challenge the reader’s ideas about a historical event to tell the reader about an important historical event
This is to convince readers of a threat, the first choice. This is not a frightening story or a historical event, because the author clearly states that "I know of no community that has experienced..." meaning that this is figurative rather than historical. This is not to convince readers about the importance of a community, as the whole excerpt is about certain disasters rather than the community that experiences it.
two possible ways the poem was composed. The first, Mason's concept, argues that the Eton copy was the original for the Elegy poem and was complete in itself. Later critics claimed that the original was more complete than the later version; [18] Roger Lonsdale argued that the early version had a balance that set up the debate,
