Question

In paragraph 10, the author uses climax ordering to -

A. Entertain the reader with outrageous and hard to fathom details
B. Compare the 1300's to modern society's social order expectations
C. Illustrate for the reader the hatred and fear people had at the time
D. Analyze the societal expectations of the time
E. Expose the reader to the intensity of the breakdown of society
PARAGRAPH-"One citizen avoided another, hardly any neighbour troubled about others, relatives never or hardly ever visited each other. Moreover, such terror was struck into the hearts of men and women by this calamity, that brother abandoned brother, and the uncle his nephew, and the sister her brother, and very often the wife her husband. What is even worse and nearly incredible is that fathers and mothers refused to see and tend their children, as if they had not been theirs.

Answer 1

Climactic order is a tool of compositoin of speech, it works by arranging details or ideas in order of increasing importance or force. In this excerpt, the author has arranged the gruesome facts of life during the Black Death in order to portray the breakdown of society this plague brought.

The right answer is letter E.