Become more common
(that is how species learn to live in an environment over time)
The phrases creating a tone of foreboding are:
- "strange blight;"
- "evil spell;"
- "mysterious maladies;"
- "shadow of death."
<em>Foreboding</em> means predicting or announcing that something bad is about to happen. Taking the answers one by one, you can see how they relate to the same ominous idea:
- a "strange blight" and "evil maladies" refer to a destructive condition which no-body can explain;
- an "evil spell" means that it is interpreted as a magical curse;
- the "shadow of death" is a metaphor meaning that death is coming to the crops or cattle (depending on the original text excerpt).
Answer:
I think it's A.understatement and irony.
Explanation:
Answer:
b) to show that technology prevents people from directly experiencing major events.
Explanation:
The Internet and mobile technologies seem to be slowly but surely undermining the depth of human connection, leading people to feel increasingly cut off from the world around them.
