One should admit at the outset to a certain bias. indeed l am a "butterfly chaser, googly eyed bleeding heart and wild conservative." i take a dim view of dams; i find it hard to learn to love cement, i am poorly impressed by concrete aggregates and statistics in the cubic tons. what tone does the author create by calling himself "butterfly chaser, goo eyed bleeding heart and wild conservative? a. humorous b. serious c. depressing d. romantic

D. Romantic  

Explanation:

He tries to imply that he is distracted, a butterfly chaser, someone who easily looses the concentration and with this giving a humorous tone to the text, and to lightdown the terminology that he uses prior to this, all that of having " a certaing biased".

A Humorous

Explanation:

it is the : d because is true

frances ellen watkins harper writing was influenced by: b. the education she received growing up in the north.

she was born in baltimore, maryland, on september 24, 1825. after the death of her parents, her uncle reverend william watkins, a teacher at the academy for negro youth, raised and educated her. she also continued educating herself by accessing a library of the family she worked for, beginning writing poetry afterwards. as a civil rights activist and abolitionist, watkins greatly influenced her life and work.