In this question the options are missing; here are the options:
What would a story written about this historical time most likely include?
A. A character receiving an order from General Washington to set the creek on fire.
B. Events resulting from a terrible snowstorm that occurred in February 1783.
C. A conflict between city people and country people being resolved.
D. General Washington's boyhood home in Virginia being described.
The answer to this question is A. A character receiving an order from General Washington to set the creek on fire.
Explanation:
The excerpt focuses on the idea General Washington wanted to set the creek on fire. This is explained in "the river or creek...might be set on fire...and as General Washington had a mind to try the experiment". In this context, if a story is created using this information or context, it is expected the story focuses on how the creek is set on fire. Moreover, it is expected General Washington is the one that leads this action and that he gives orders to others to complete it. According to this, the correct answer is the first option.
A. The speaker uses metaphors to compare the summer to his beloved, degrading them for being harsh and fleeting.
D should be D yea i think
<em>“The inflated style itself is a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. I should expect to find — this is a guess which I have not sufficient knowledge to verify — that the German, Russian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years, as a result of dictatorship.”</em>
