Question

Read the passage from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.

1.) It is easy to write the line "people starve to death"; it is much harder to deal with the harsh reality. 2.) But you need to understand this point, if only to see how little choice you might have in what you eat. 3.) The itinerant poor might literally die in the street.
In what way is the second sentence effective?
A. It highlights the number of impoverished people in Elizabethan England.
B. It explains how the reader can avoid dealing with the hungry poor.
C. It illustrates how the diet of Elizabethan England can benefit the reader.
D. It emphasizes why this passage is important to the reader personally.

Answer 1

D on edge

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer 2

D. It emphasizes why this passage is important to the reader personally.

Step-by-step explanation:

Ian Mortimer's "The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England" takes us back to the days of Elizabethan England which was considered to be the golden age. Imagining what it must be like to be actually living in that era, Mortimer's text brings back the past to life.

The second sentence in the excerpt talks of how different and unconditional things can be in that age, especially regarding what a person eats. By implying that we as readers, "need to understand" the harsh reality of the people's lives in poverty. This sentence lay emphasis on why the passage is important for us readers to understand it personally.