Comparison/Contrast is the structure used:)
Answer:
C. By revealing the clergy's vindictive abuse of power.
Explanation:
Satirizing is a literary technique that writers use to express opinions or let their characters speak in such a way that ridicules others. This allows the criticizing or at times humorously critiquing any moral value, or vices.
The given excerpt is from 'The Pardoner's Prologue' of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales". These lines from the prologue present the vindictive language the clergy used in his teaching at the pulpit. He admits <em>"I can sting with my tongue; and when I preach I sting so hard"</em>, using language that is<em> "slander and defamation"</em>. He continues <em>"I spit out venom, under guise Of piety, and seem sincerely pious"</em>. All these languages show <u>the clergy's vindictive abuse of power which he thinks is ordained to him as a preacher or leader of the church</u>.
Thus, the correct answer is the third option.
Answer:
it is going to be d because it is using a short compound sentence
"By lessening the number of Papists among us," is the sentence which is directed against a particular social class in Ireland. Papists are known to be a sectarian term for the Roman Catholic Church's teaching, practices, and adherents. It is a actually a derogatory term used back then
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The correct answer here is C. The appositive phrase is a set of words, usually separated by commas, that define the noun, or the subject in more detail. Here, the book is more thoroughly described through the use of the appositive phrase, "the one about Earth and its rocks".
