Answer: Critical
Explanation:
In using the word 'oppressive', we can infer that the author is of the belief that Jews were being mistreated by those around them in the countries they stayed in.
This word therefore carries the connotation that the author is criticizing these conditions because in using the word 'oppressive', which carries a negative connotation, actions of others towards the Jews is seen in a negative light.
An understatement is the downplay of something.
The scowl grew blacker on his face; the indigo-circles enlarged round his eyes as the storm-rings round the midnight moon. He sprang upon me; his tri-forked thing at my heart.
I seized it; I snapped it; I dashed it; I trod it; and dragging the dark lightning-king out of my door, flung his elbowed, copper scepter after him.
But spite of my treatment, and spite of my dissuasive talk of him to my neighbors, the Lightning-rod man still dwells in the land; still travels in storm-time, and drives a brave trade with the fears of man.
it tell me to put three this is what i got
The three basic ideas (Experience, Self-reliance, and Worship) in Thoreau's Walden deals specifically with one theme: “Simplicity”. To Thoreau, simplicity in experience, simplicity in self-reliance, and simplicity in worship breeds the finer things in life.Apr 9, 2008
Another word for that could be circular reasoning.
