<u>Answer:</u>
Puritans were protestors in 16th and 17th century who scared people with their sermons.
<u>Explanation:</u>
“Sermon” is a religious talk given in church. Puritans wanted to purify the ''Church of England'' from the ''Roman catholic practices''. They observed that there is a decrease in the number of religious devotees of ''second-generation'' settlers. To increase this, they 'preached' a type of sermon called "jeremiad". This sermon basically wanted to scare people by stating that if anyone committed any sin, they would be tortured and burnt in hell.
By all this, people would remain Puritan and believe in God and Church.
A descriptive passage that might reveal more information about Silas could be the following;
<span>"Strangely Marner’s face and figure shrank and bent themselves into a constant mechanical relation to the objects of his life, so that he produced the same sort of impression as a handle or a crooked tube, which has no meaning standing apart. The prominent eyes that used to look trusting and dreamy, now looked as if they had been made to see only one kind of thing that was very small, like tiny grain, for which they hunted everywhere; and he was so withered and yellow, that, though he was not yet forty, the children always called him “Old Master Marner.” (chapter 2)
</span>From this excerpt, the reader might get to know that he lives a mechanical life in the industrialized world so he seems to be dehumanized just for the fact that he lives to work and get money. It could be also perceived that his eyesight had been damaged because of work but his ability to see goes beyond the literal meaning of it. he is also deteriorated both physically, mentally and spiritual
An indirect source is when you quote a source that is cited in another source
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The author's shift in tone between the paragraphs was a transition between B. exemplifying simplicity and demonstrating complexity identifying problems and proposing solutions.
<h3>What is tone?</h3>
In literature, it should be noted that that a tone simply means the word choice that influences the mood in a story.
In this case, the author's shift in tone between the fourth and fifth paragraphs was a transition between exemplifying simplicity and demonstrating complexity identifying problems and proposing solutions.
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