Answer:
"So what? It's not lethal..."
Explanation:
Elie's father attempts to downplay the significance of the decree by telling his son, "The yellow star? So what? It's not lethal . . . "
Annihilate and decimate both mean to destroy something or someone, but annihilate means to destroy something as a whole, and at a bigger scale, while decimate doesn't have to mean destroying the whole thing.
Eradicate and massacre are both violent words with the intent to convey destruction, but eradicate is a more general term, as massacre is meant to simple destroy/kill a large group of people.
Emotion is stronger as all actions have different form of emotions/reactions, a action could be made from a place of love, hatred or kindness.
In todays society, we can see that in bullying. People might bully others as a reflection of themselves.
So the emotion is basically involved in everyones actions.
Answer:
A. The publishing company
Explanation:
The purpose of the use of elongated hyphens in this excerpt is C. To interrupt the pattern of speaking in the normal flow of ideas.
Elongated hyphens are used to emphasize something, add extra information and even as a substitute for commas in some cases.
The other options are not correct because they don't cover the main function of the elongated hyphens which is to disrupt a sentence with extra information added to it.
