Read the excerpt from “the lottery.” "we're next." mrs. graves said. she watched while mr. graves came around from the side of the box, greeted mr. summers gravely and selected a slip of paper from the box. by now, all through the crowd there were men holding the small folded papers in their large hand, turning them over and over nervously mrs. dunbar and her two sons stood together, mrs. dunbar holding the slip of paper. what is the purpose of the descriptive language in the excerpt? it builds suspense as people prepare for the results. it shows how mean-spirited the people have become. it shows the indifference of the people toward the lottery. it causes readers to reflect on a time when they worried.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion