I never saw a circle of such hateful faces; and there was the man in the middle, with a kind of black sneering coolness—frighten
ed too, I could see that—but carrying it off, sir, really like Satan. ‘If you choose to make capital out of this accident,’ said he, ‘I am naturally helpless. No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene,’ says he. ‘Name your figure.’ Well, we screwed him up to a hundred pounds for the child’s family; he would have clearly liked to stick out; but there was something about the lot of us that meant mischief, and at last he struck. What type of conflict does the excerpt illustrate?
Phillis Wheatley's poetry - A) Early American and Colonial Literature and D) Realism She was the woman who themes had many ideas of rebellious colonists and she was the first African-American woman who published a book of poetry back then. Because of its social realities themes it can be also considered as realism.
Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" - E) Regionalism It is considered as regionalism because of its focus on the story at particular location or region that we can find in Mark Twain's work. ''Calaveras County''
Walt Whitman's poetry - B) American Romanticism Whitman is one of the most popular poets of American Romanticism and he developed his own style with the simple language. One of his main theme was freedom.
Henry David Thoreau's Walden - B) American Romanticism One of his themes was protesting government and another also important themes in his work was nature and beauty of it which is one of the significance for Romanticism.
the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - A) Early American and Colonial Literature In this work we can see that there are included folklore characters protagonists and one of them is Trickster.
In the body as a reason, is your answer sweetie. This is because the paragraph starts out with the words one explanation which signifies that this would be a reason.