D. They create a sense of suspense
Each of these words and phrases indicate that something important is happening. For example "The immediate pressure of necessity" makes the reader want to know what pressures are the people under where they need to make decisions based on necessity. Also the lines "their only escape from the destruction that...creeps upon them" shows that destruction is coming. Do they survive the destruction? What is happening? This all creates the feeling of suspense.
Answer:
The scientific study of language and its structure, including the study of morphology, syntax, phonetics, and semantics. Specific branches of linguistics include sociolinguistics, dialectology, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, historical-comparative linguistics, and applied linguistics.
Explanation:
Using PEMDAS it would be -1 .
First you do the parentheses which equals to (-1). Then you raise it to the second power which is 1 because -1 * -1 is 1. But then you have the negative symbol on the outside so it is -1.