Answer:
D) He identified a woman as a witch in his own church, and she was shown to be not guilty.
Explanation:
<u>It is said that Reverend John Hale has identified a woman to be a witch year before in his parish in Beverly</u>. The woman in question turned out to be not guilty, but “a mere pest”. Still, Reverent Hale thinks of himself as qualified to detect satanic doings and witchcraft, and others think of him in this manner as well.
<u> Even though Reverend Parris of Salem knows the woman of Beverly did not turn out to be a witch, he still called Reverend Hale to look into the matter.</u> He presents him as having experience in demonic arts, and Mrs. Putnam agrees.
Therefore, his false accusation still remains as his qualifier and we can see how people tend to believe church Reverends even when they wrong.
<span>General Barker bustled about the house like a woman preparing Thanksgiving dinner for twenty.
This is the best example of irony. The excerpt describes General Barker, who occupies a traditionally very masculine profession, preparing for the demonstration of the most destructive weapon in the history of mankind as if he were a woman bustling about the house preparing Thanksgiving dinner. This juxtaposition creates a sense of irony. </span>
Answer:
The statement that best describes the excerpt is:
3- Most of the sentences have a similar structure.
Explanation:
The first two sentences may seem longer, having more elements. But from the third sentence on, what we have are simple clauses, independent sentences. The structure is so similar that Paine was able to omit the verb "to be" from the fourth sentence on, since it had been mentioned in the previous sentence, and the other are somehow a continuation of that same idea. Therefore, we can safely say that most of the sentences have a similar structure.
Passive. Assumably, they aren't intently listening, only to relax
