Answer:
D: a warship fires at the land, even though there is nothing there to shoot.
Explanation:
"Heart of Darkness" (1899) is Joseph Conrad's masterpiece novel. The major themes of the novel are imperialism, colonialism, and racism.
There are many examples of colonials ineffectiveness throughout the novel. The selected option is just one instance. Another famous one is in the leveling of the cliff for no apparent purpose. The narrator satirizes that may be it was just for philanthropic purpose of keeping the slaves busy. A pointless attempt to extinguish a burning grass hut is one more such example to show colonials inefficiency in Africa.
It would be comparison because it is asking what the relationship of the sentences are!
Answer:
that depends what's the excerpt
Answer: A) The writer could make the tone more academic.
Explanation: The tone of a text or sentence is the author's or speaker's attitude towards the audience, the subject or even the characters of the text. There are many different kinds of tones, like: positive, negative, objective, sad, angry, etc. From the given options, the one that represents how the excerpt could be best improved, is the corresponding to option A: A. The writer could make the tone more academic, by avoiding expressions like "totally important," "tons," and "it's obvious."
