Read these excerpts from Fever 1793 and The Summer of the Pestilence. Fiction: Fever 1793 He picked up a broadsheet and read: On
the advice from the College of Physicians: 1. All persons should avoid those that are infected. 2. The homes of the sick should be marked. 3. Sick people should be placed in the center of large airy rooms without curtains and should be kept clean. 4. We must supply a hospital for the poor. 5. All bell tolling should cease immediately. 6. The dead should be buried privately. Nonfiction: The Summer of the Pestilence [The panic] is owing mainly, however, I think, to the quarantine regulations, by which our communication with all the cities and towns around us, and even with some of the counties to which our citizens would naturally flee, has been cut off . . . . New York took the lead in this matter, issuing her quarantine order on the 30th of July. Since then, almost every mail has brought us the information that one place after another—Suffolk, Richmond, Petersburg, Welden, Hampton, Washington, Baltimore—has shut us out. What is the most important difference in the way the excerpts describe the regulations? The fictional excerpt shows a calm response to the regulations, while the nonfictional
The correct answer is B : The nonfictional excerpt shows the response to the regulations presented in the fictional piece.
Explanation: The fictional piece describes the advice of Physicians regarding the fever while the Nonfiction talks about the effects of the information and regulations on New York and other places.
Yes and no, a scale can help by telling if you are losing or gaining weight but the downside is that it can also discourage you. It can make you feel like you are not making any progress at all or it can make you feel like you have gained weight.
In the above excerpt, Orwell is using indirect characterization.
Here, the private thoughts of the character are telling the reader more about his personality. We learn not only who he supports but also that he is doing so secretly.
The Petrarchan sonnet divides the 14 lines into two sections which are an eight-line stanza (octave) rhyming ABBAABBA, and a six-line stanza (sestet) rhyming CDCDCD or CDECDE.
