Answer:
D. As an emotional appeal to connect with readers on a personal level
Explanation:
The context of a rhetorical act, made up at a minimum of a rhetor, which is a speaker or writer, with an issue of a speech or a written to a audience.
Well in this chapter its not one person who is not home. Bilbo gets everyone on an adventure so it the heat of the chapter i guess nobody is REALLY home.
D. Take
Investing something means earning something or taking something.
the boy eats and drinks the milk and cookies that he knows he cannot pay for.
(I believe this is right)