Answer:
1. It fulfills the definition of a ballad in that it tells a short story in stanzas
2. It fulfills the definition of a satire in that it uses humor to describe the reaction of the British people on seeing the kegs.
Explanation:
A ballad is a short story written in stanzas in a poem or song. Satire is the use of humor or exaggerations to expose the deeds of a person or group of people. The battle of the kegs is a short story in that it tells the story of how the Americans deployed kegs which were meant to explode on the ships of the British Army at Philadelphia on the 6th of January, 1776.
The poem is a satire in that it uses comical scenes to describe the British army and others at the harbor running helter-skelter. Some (like Sir Erskine) had one of their boots in their hands and the other on their foot. It would have been a funny sight for the Americans to behold.
I would say yes, and i would say yes because:
We know god made Jesus, he is the only “human” without a human father, and there is more proof that Jesus existed than a famous Roman emperor. We know he exists, because someone HAD to have made us. We couldn’t just be poofed into existence from thin air. There is also proof that biblical things written really did happen, and its not just a make believe book.
Answer:
The statement that best describes the excerpt is:
3- Most of the sentences have a similar structure.
Explanation:
The first two sentences may seem longer, having more elements. But from the third sentence on, what we have are simple clauses, independent sentences. The structure is so similar that Paine was able to omit the verb "to be" from the fourth sentence on, since it had been mentioned in the previous sentence, and the other are somehow a continuation of that same idea. Therefore, we can safely say that most of the sentences have a similar structure.
