In Chapter 16, Madame Defarge states to her husband that laying the groundwork for monumental change takes a long time, once it happens, it will be unstoppable like an earthquake or lightning. This passage clearly represents her views on the revolution because she sympathizes with her husband's impatience but does not waver from her belief in the cause.
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Harry, Ron and Hermione search for and destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes. They all battle at Hogwarts, destroy the Horcruxes, learn things about people they thought they knew, and in the end Voldemort dies.
It is by listening and evaluating the speaker's questions and responses. When the speaker asks a question, he is surely making a point to the audience through his responses. By that kind of communication, the speaker should have given his purpose to the audiences.
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A. generate new ideas for possible plots, characters, and settings