It depends whether you are writing a fiction book, say for example you a writing a book on the Victorians, it was a fact file, you would have to use events from real life i.e the death of Queen Victoria<span />
Catharsis is the cleansing of emotions by art. Catharsis
is a psychological term defined as ‘expressing without filter with ones words’.
This is often used in therapies such as psychoanalysis and client-center. It
basically aims to let the patient talk until all the things he is hiding has
come into consciousness.
The best word would be were because it is in the past tense :)
It’s number 2: to show the concepts of great size