Read the passage from gulliver's travels. the method is this: in an acre of ground you bury, at six inches distance and eight deep, a quantity of acorns, dates, chestnuts, and other mast or vegetables, whereof these animals are fondest; then you drive six hundred or more of them into the field, where, in a few days, they will root up the whole ground in search of their food, and make it fit for sowing, at the same time manuring it with their dung: it is true, upon experiment, they found the charge and trouble very great, and they had little or no crop. however it is not doubted, that this invention may be capable of great improvement. which excerpt from the passage is the best example of understatement? in an acre of ground you bury, at six inches distance and eight deep, a quantity of acorns, dates, chestnuts then you drive six hundred or more of them into the field, where, in a few days, they will root up the whole ground they found the charge and trouble very great, and they had little or no crop it is not doubted, that this invention may be capable of great improvement

The answer is:

it is not doubted, that this invention may be capable of great improvement .

An understatement is something presented as less important, smaller or worse than it actually is.

In the passage from "Gulliver's Travels," the protagonist describes a method to farm the land. The process involves burying food to attract animals, so that they pull up the ground and manure it. Thus, people intend to make it suitable for cultivation, although it does not work. As a consequence, Gulliver acknowledges the approach is not as good as expect and that it could be improved.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

the answer is both an appeal to ethos and logos (if that's what your question options were)