Which of the following best describes a central idea of the text?
A.
Humans are innately unethical and immoral.
B.
Feelings of joy after acting unethically may be a motivation factor in cheating, stealing, deception, etc.
C.
Deception and cheating produce feelings of guilt rather than happiness.
D.
People will do anything, no matter how bad, if they know that they will not get caught.

a question like this requires the excerpt to be included in order to answer the question.

try to do soaps tone.

s-subject

o-occasion (the reason the author wrote the poem)

a-audience (who is this poem mostly for)

p-purpose (was it to convince, inspire, etc. the audience)

s-speaker (can be the author or another character, like is a child, adult, woman, elderly, animal narrating the poem)

tone- the mood the reader gets from this poem

mood- the mood the author had with their own poem

meaning- what do you think the meaning is?

message- what is the author trying to explain to the audience? like what is the theme?

if you still don't get it try showing everyone the poem so they could unravel it

third person

explanation:

note the usage of names and pronouns, "james" & "the old man". this alone can confirm it as third person, as first person uses "i" and the like, while second person uses "you" and the like.

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