Excerpt from Journal Entry of Jerome Dunkin’ Duncan Mary O’Dell
Now, don’t think I am exaggerating about yesterday. My ears are still ringing from the thunderous cheering of our Silver Fox fans. We closed our season with a two point defeat of our high school rivals, the Bulldogs. The game was a nail biter until the last minute. The sellout crowd was ecstatic and now I, Jerome Dunkin Duncan, am the hometown hero! The church parking lot was packed for the 5th Quarter Basketball Party, a local tradition. I was greeted like a king entering his majestic palace. Pops, Coach Moses, and Ms. Willow worked their way through the crowd.
“I’m proud of you, son,” beamed Pops.
“You gave 110% out there,” agreed Coach Moses. Ms. Willow simply smiled, handed me a sealed envelope, and hugged me. Pops assured me he would record the local news
If this fictional journal entry were adapted into a poem, what might be one of its defining characteristics?
A) Jerome would speak in first person.
B) There would be line breaks and possibly rhyme.
Eliminate
C) The literary piece would now have a moral lesson at the end.
D) The character of Jerome Dunkin' Duncan would be more developed.
overage of my no-look passes, dunks, steals, and fall-away three pointers.

(The answer is B) There would be line breaks and possibly rhyme

Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)