Answer:
The answer is B.
Explanation:
It has the most formal tone and the best flow out of the options.Hope this helps!
Answer:
c) Foreshadowing.
Explanation:
Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is one of the most prominent books about the slavery discrimination in America. The prejudice against the slaves is shown through the character of Tom and his family.
The excerpt provided in the question is from Chapter XXVIII of the text titled "Reunion". This part deals with Ophelia asking or rather imploring her cousin Mr. Augustine St. Claire to sign off the deed of ownership of Topsy to her. She wants to do it at the moment so that there is a sure sign of her ownership and so that she can safeguard her and maybe even free her in the future. This idea of making a slave free may be supported by St. Claire too but he did not have the same courage to get it through. This particular scene foreshadows the fate of his slaves who were auctioned off when he suddenly died unexpectedly.
As for Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Masque of the Red Death<span>, readers who possess knowledge of Poe's dark and depressing past can imagine the reasoning behind his construction of the text. Poe lost three women, who were very important to him, to tuberculosis. His ability to create dark and horror filled texts, backed with his personal knowledge of the disease, could easily lead one to decide that </span>Masque<span>was an attempt to describe the horrible affects which tuberculous had upon its "host".</span>