A. If we do refuse to allow the rich,
desirable, and important Hawaiian
Islands permission to become a part of
our territory, it will be an act of utter
recklessness and indifference in respect
to our interests as a nation and our
welfare as a people. It is certain that our
duty to ourselves requires us to accept
this offer.
B.
C.
D.
Why does the language of these sentences make
an effective closing to Bingham's argument?
A. Words like "permission" and "respect" remind
the audience that they must honor the islanders'
wishes.
B. Words like "recklessness" and "indifference"
humiliate the audience members who oppose
annexation.
C. Words like "duty" and "nation" call upon the
audience's higher values in the matter of Hawaii.
D. Words like "rich" and "welfare" emphasize the
economic disparity between the audience and
islanders.

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man