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Read the following passage from "every man a king":

look at what the mayo brothers announced this week, these greatest scientists of all the world today, who are entitled to have more money than all the morgans and the rockefellers, or anyone else, and yet the mayos turn back their big fortunes to be used for treating the sick, and said they did not want to lay up fortunes in this earth, but wanted to turn them back where they would do some good; but the other big capitalists are not willing to do that, are not willing to do what these men, ten times more worthy, have already done, and it is going to take a law to require them to do it.

which of these best describes the diction used in this passage?

a. passionate but clear
b. simple but wordy
c. engaging but dry
d. poetic but meaningless

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