The author is using a type of figurative language called personification. Personification is when you give human characteristics or traits to something that is non human. When the author writes, "<span>the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows." the author is giving the sea human characteristics. The sea does not actually have lips.</span>
The text structure with the kind of information an author would present using that structure is differentiated down below:
Explanation:
Descriptive is the text structure an author uses which gives Information to help create a mind picture
Cause and effect
is the text structure an author uses which Makes the reader understand why something happened
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Compare and contrast is the text structure an author uses which Shows what is the same and what is different between something
Argumentative is the text structure an author uses which gives Information that persuades the reader to the author's opinion
Moderate means D- to take on a serious mode.
The writer used the word 'moderate' to make a comparison between those people who would lead a serious life without any excess with the group of people who would do whatever they wanted to fight against the Black Death.
