The flashlight flickered and then died, plunging wills into
darkness. he reached into his pocket for fresh batteries
and found, like always, nothing. hoping anne would realize
what had happened and come back and rescue him, he
tapped the flashlight several times and frantically pushed
the switch off and on, as if that would . nothing. wills
tapped the flashlight again, this time harder, and resorted
to pleading. "," he muttered. ", turn on."
which statement best describes how the mood supports the overall meanin
of the passage?

the rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is parallelism. parallelism is a technique which author used in sentence as substitute of repeated synthetical similarities. it is the effect of rhetorical technique.

explanation:

the negative way that it shaped life was by having a feudal system where only the nobles and the christian church while it was oppressive to the peasants and specially to women. the positive way that it shape life is by introducing the artisan class when the feudal system fell. it change the attitudes towards religion and it also introduced what was known as knightly chivalry.

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