Question 5 of 20
2 points
read this passage from "the city without us' by alan weisman:
never cut, but mightily changed. until only recently, it was
known as the hemlock forest for its shady stands of that
graceful conifer, but almost every hemlock here is now!
dead, slain by a japanese insect smaller than the period at
the end of this sentence, which arrived in new york in the
mid-1980s.
which statement best explains how irony is used in the passage?
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a. an insect nearly microscopic in size is responsible for felling a
forest of conifers.
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b. human beings cannot be blamed for the death of the hemlock
forest.
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c. the destruction of the hemlock forest occurred only as recently
as the 1980s.
d. an insect imported from japan is the cause of the decimation of an entire force

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the answer is:  

he is voicing feelings shared by all humans regardless of race.

in paul laurence dunbar's poem "we wear the mask," he replicates the words mask and we to emphasize how people in general -not just black americans- hide their true feelings. he suggests the masks cover people's faces and eyes, which are the main parts that display their emotions. he also thinks people's pain conceal behind those masks, so that they cannot see reality and nobody is able to see one another's sorrow.

when reagan refers to freedom in this passage, he uses repetition as a rhetorical device. repetition is when the same words or phrases are repeated few times to make an idea stronger and more unforgettable. in this case, when he talks about freedom, he starts the sentence whit this word followed by a verb in present simple and after an advantage of being free.

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