In paragraph 10, the author uses climax ordering to - a. entertain the reader with outrageous and hard to fathom details b. compare the 1300's to modern society's social order expectations c. illustrate for the reader the hatred and fear people had at the time d. analyze the societal expectations of the time e. expose the reader to the intensity of the breakdown of society paragraph-"one citizen avoided another, hardly any neighbour troubled about others, relatives never or hardly ever visited each other. moreover, such terror was struck into the hearts of men and women by this calamity, that brother abandoned brother, and the uncle his nephew, and the sister her brother, and very often the wife her husband. what is even worse and nearly incredible is that fathers and mothers refused to see and tend their children, as if they had not been theirs.

Climactic order is a tool of compositoin of speech, it works by arranging details or ideas in order of increasing importance or force. In this excerpt, the author has arranged the gruesome facts of life during the Black Death in order to portray the breakdown of society this plague brought.

The right answer is letter E.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)