Read the passage from sugar changed the world. cutting cane was hard work, but it was nothing like what came next: piles of freshly cut cane had to be fed into the ever-turning mill wheels, until they were completely crushed. the owners insisted that during the work hours the grinding never stop, no matter what. the mills were most often tended by women who were doing dangerous work while getting almost no rest. that was a very bad combination. an ax was often propped up near the rollers so if a slave closed her eyes for a second while pushing the cane, her arm could be hacked off before she was pulled through the merciless grinders. guests at sugar plantations often remarked on how many one-armed people they saw. how do the authors support their claim and purpose with their choice of words? a..by using words with neutral connotations, such as completely and remarked b..by describing the mills with positive words, such as the word freshly c..by repeating the word work to emphasize and praise the mills’ productivity d..by using words with negative connotations, such as hacked and merciless

By using words with negative connotations, such as hacked and merciless is the answer to your question.

The authors support their claim and purpose (D.) by using words with negative connotations, such as hacked and merciless.

In this excerpt, the authors are describing the feeding of sugarcane, which implied working very hard. They describe it as a bad experience since cut cane had to be fed by enslaved men and women who had to deal with dangerous working conditions and could not even rest. For that reason, the authors use words with negative connotations, that is to say words that are used to denote a bad feeling or an unpleasant emotion. Besides 'hacked' and 'merciless, other words with negative connotation are 'dangerous' and 'bad'.  

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d. a story that frightened readers so much they would become suspicious of their surroundings

frankenstein is one of the terror novels wrote by the writers in a sort of bet, lord byron challenged them all to write a ghost story, and the story came to mary shelley in a dream, she wanted to conect with the fears of her society, fears of technology and changes, and she wanted readers to look around, freightened.

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