General Clinton, concerned about what General Howe was planning and doing, made use of a mask to write a secret message in a let
ter to General Burgoyne. Before writing the letter, Clinton had placed an hourglass-shaped mask on a piece of paper and then had formed the secret message within that shape.
The unmasked letter had enough false information in it to fool any American who happened to see it. But when Burgoyne viewed the letter with the mask, he read Clinton's view of the real situation: Howe has made a bad move; I don't have enough men to do anything about it.
The author’s main purpose in this excerpt is to
describe a form of code writing using an example.
explain the mistakes of General Howe during the war.
entertain the reader with a humorous story of miscommunication.
argue that using a mask is the best method for sending secret messages.
The author’s main purpose in this excerpt is to describe a form of code writing using an example.
Explanation:
In the text in question, the author describes how General Clinton inserted a secret message in a text apparently unrelated to the information that he wanted to convey. That is, through a real situation, he exemplifies how a secret message could be introduced that changed the course of history.
In the fourth episode, the Servant actually eagerly answers to Oedipus's questioning about his heritage - that he was abandoned by his parents and that he is that same baby he had been asking around about.
<span>D. The men want Scrooge to give money to help the poor, but Scrooge insists that the prisons and workhouses can provide the poor with basic necessities.
