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.
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.
According to its definition, the time context refers to various conditions and the climate of opinion that surround the text's creation and event's occurrence. Time context is needed to let the reader know why particular events are important at the time an event happened.
Lebron James in highschool was a prodigy, he was the one of the best in the nation and was so good that he skipped college basketball and went straight to the NBA. You have to be very talented to skip college basketball and go straight to the NBA after highschool.
"His native home deep-imaged in his soul. As the tired ploughman," homer's odessey I'm not to sure, but I think that it is comparing the ploughman to his soul
