The phrases creating a tone of foreboding are:
- "strange blight;"
- "evil spell;"
- "mysterious maladies;"
- "shadow of death."
<em>Foreboding</em> means predicting or announcing that something bad is about to happen. Taking the answers one by one, you can see how they relate to the same ominous idea:
- a "strange blight" and "evil maladies" refer to a destructive condition which no-body can explain;
- an "evil spell" means that it is interpreted as a magical curse;
- the "shadow of death" is a metaphor meaning that death is coming to the crops or cattle (depending on the original text excerpt).
Hello,
The correct objective summary of the passage above is B.
Answer:
I believe that it's a hiaku a japanese poem that are usually about nature. Haiku's have 3 lines with syllables 5,7,5 for each line. The first line boiling, hot lava has 5 syllables, Second line bubbles beneath the Earth's crust has 7syllables, and finally the third line shhhh! The giant stirs has 5 syllables.
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