Question

12. Which of the following lines from the novel is an example of amplification?

A. "For an hour or more, I remained too stunned to think; and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces."
B. "All the truth of my position came flashing on me; and its disappointments, dangers, disgraces, consequences of all kinds. . . ."
C. "It was wretched weather; stormy and wet, stormy and wet; mud, mud, mud, deep in all the streets."
D. ". . . and the wind rushing up the river shook the house that night, like discharges of cannon . . ."

Answer 1

D. ". . . and the wind rushing up the river shook the house that night, like discharges of cannon . . ."

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Answer 2

The line from the novel that is an example of amplification is C: "It was wretched weather; stormy and wet, stormy and wet; mud, mud, mud, deep in all the streets."

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's remember that amplification in literature is a device that authors use in order to embellish a sentence by adding more information to a fact that could have been missed by the reader otherwise. The objective of this device is to increase the readability and worth of the statement. In this particular case, the speaker says "it was wretched weather", he could have left it there, but instead he added that it was "stormy and wet", not only he adds this, he also repeats to stress the idea of the bad weather: "stormy and wet; mud, mud, mud, deep in all the streets." He even expresses it in a kind of poetic way, he embellishes the sentence by doing this, and that is exactly the meaning of amplification.