Question

Read the following passage carefully before you choose your answer.

This passage is taken from an eighteenth-century letter from a president to the citizens of the United States of America.


The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none; or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.


Which of the following stylistic features is used in the sentence, "So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled in good faith"? (5 points)



Repetition of sentence structure


Periodic sentence structure


Inversion of normal subject/verb/object order


Sentence fragments for emphasis

Answer 1

The correct answer is: Inversion of normal subject/verb/object order

Step-by-step explanation:

Normally, the sentence would be structured as "Let us fulfill our engagements with perfect good faith". However, the author inverts the order to put more emphasis on the condition "So far as we have already formed engagements". This also creates a parallel structure with the following sentence, which begins with "Here let us stop".

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