Opinions are subjective, as they can vary from person to person but facts are objective.
Pejorative means to make worse.
"If we wish to be free-if we mean to preserve", "if we mean not basely to abandon" AND "which we have been so long contending", "which we have been so long engaged", "which we have pledged".
Parallelism is the repetition of the same grammatical structure. There are two instances of parallel structure in this excerpt. The first is the "If we ___ to ___" structure. The second is the "which we have _______" structure. By filling the passage with this parallel structure is gives the sense of a list of reasons that all, compounding on top of one another, logically lead to the need to fight. The change from the parallel structures in the last line "we must fight!" makes this exclamation stand out and hold power.
<em>For Scrooge, Christmas is nothing but a fraud or a humbug and not a reason to be happy for a celebration because he has no money or poor. His nephew (Fred) answered him that although they are poor, it is still a reason to celebrate because it is that one time of the year where people rejoice and open up presents and hearts.</em>
“Rewrite the sentence as a question” is the answer
