Part A.
Answer: There have been many, but they have all failed.
Explanation: Henry brings up their past experience with the British, and point out they never had a successful reconciliation. "And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House."
Part B.
Answer: He asks questions and then answers them to lead the audience.
Explanation: He asks questions such as "Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?" to support his argument that the British cannot be trusted if they are bringing troops.
What are the answer choices?
False - These two devices are not similar and they are joined together to create a peculiar poetry effect.
The statement which best describes Kipling's point of view in this excerpt is, 'The people that have been helped by colonial powers undo all the
good that colonial powers have achieved.'
Answer: Option C.
Explanation:
‘The White Man’s Burden’ is a poem written by a well known poet Rudyard Kipling. This poem is about the war between America and Philippine. The poem consists of seven stanzas and the excerpt provided is from the third stanza of the poem.
The last two lines of the stanza clearly depicts how the people who have been helped the colonial powers undid all the good that the colonials have achieved.
‘Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.’ Here the speaker have described people as sloth, heathen, and folly; which means people are lazy, uncivilized, and foolish. He further states that they’re the ones to bring all hopes to nought, to nothingness and failure.
