Read the adapted excerpt from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. But I should have mentioned that before the principal person began his oration, he cried out three time
and the former, were afterwards repeated, and explained to me). Whereupon immediately about fifty o
the strings that fastened the left side of my head, which gave me the liberty of turning it to the right, an
gesture of him that was to speak. He appeared to be of a middle age, and taller than any of the other th
one was a page that held up his train, and seemed to be somewhat longer than my middle finger; the c
to support him. He acted every part of an orator, and I could observe many periods of threatenings, an
kindness.
Which choice provides the best objective summary of the excerpt?