Select the correct answer. John Snow's nonfiction work "On the Mode of Communication of Cholera" and Edgar Allan Poe's fictional work "The Masque of the Red Death" both describe a fatal epidemic. Which is the most suitable comparison of the two works?
A.
Snow's work looks at how the disease spreads geographically, while Poe's work looks at how it affects different classes of society.
B.
Snow's work looks for the cause of the disease to prevent it, while Poe's work personifies it to entertain his audience.
C.
Snow's work focuses on the number of deaths caused by the disease, while Poe's work focuses on the nature of deaths it causes.
D.
Snow uses technical words to add credibility to his work, while Poe uses simple language to maintain clarity in his work.
E.
Snow's work stresses that the disease is fatal to many, while Poe's work stresses that the disease is fatal to all.

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In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.

Which of the following are characteristics of free verse in “the child is not dead”? select all that apply. -sounds like spoken speech -use of punctuation at the end of each line -no regular rhyme scheme -use of rhymed words at the end of each line (edit) the answer is a & c