I'm not that sure but I'm 85% sure is B, lol.
Answer: We need background information
Explanation: what are the events?
The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: "It adds to the high standard the speaker is claiming one must meet to love another."In this excerpt from “A Woman’s Shortcomings” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, this is the effect of parallelism
A serpent and an elephant. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable [unending] serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.
Well I can answer what the word beast suggests about the text.
I think it is suggests that they don't know much about the people of Mars, the life forms that lived there so they are frightened of them. They know that they are intelligent, or were, but also acknowledge how the planet is nearly impossible to sustain life with all of its water frozen.
Hope that helped, I don't know much about English class in highschool yet so I wasn't sure exactly how to answer the question.
