It is a full phrase that has a verb in it. Not just the verb alone. Like for example. He was walking quickly home.
“was walking” is the verb phrase.
The purpose of a agrumentative essay is to defend a debatable position on a spefic issue so the last one is the answer.
Answer:
Phoenicia was an ancient civilization composed of independent city-states located along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea stretching through what is now Syria, Lebanon and northern Israel.The Phoenicians were a great maritime people, known for their mighty ships adorned with horses’ heads in honor of their god of the sea, Yamm, the brother of Mot, the god of death.
The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity
Johnson uses sarcasm in this poem as he expresses the opposite of what he means. When he says "pile on the Black Man's Burden", and gives examples of how people can make black men more miserable than they already are ("his wail with laughter drown"), he is using sarcasm. He clearly does not want people to pile on this burden and make black men's lives harder, but he is saying that people should do it to show them how ridiculous it sounds and to point out that people are already doing that.