Answer:
B.
Explanation:
An understatement is an utterance that depicts something in a manner that gives it less importance, seriousness, makes it less bad, etc. than it actually is. In this example, the speaker makes use of such understatement to minimize the act of women eating children, who later would become mothers themselves.
Your answer would be most likely one that is not listed. None of these are correct and if there are no other answers I wouldn't understand.
The correct answer would be the one not listed, Otto Frank is distant, reserved, and cold. I remember this from reading about it a long time ago.
Though if having to choose one of these answers, The closest is A.
This should be a slippery slope logical fallacy.
That's when you start with a thing and swiftly move on to the consequences that may come from that thing and are usually negative. Here you have the slippery slope that if you don't do your homework, you are bound to fail and end up being a failure while it is not so in reality.