Excerpt from jim smily and his jumping frog
mark twain
well, i called on good natured, garrulous old simon wheeler, and i inquired after your friend leonidas w. smily, as you
requested me to do, and i hereunto append the result. if you can get any information out of it you are cordially welcome to it.
i have a lurking suspicion that your leonidas w. smily is a myth-that you never knew such a personage, and that you only
conjectured that if i asked old wheeler about him it would remind him of his infamous jim smily, and he would go to work
and bore me nearly to death with some infernal reminiscence of him as long and tedious as it should be useless to me. if that
was your design, mr. ward, it will gratify you to know that it succeeded.
what can the reader conclude about the story that simon wheeler is going to tell the narrator?
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the story will be long and tedious.
smily thinks the story is ridiculous.
the story will be short and succinct.
the narrator thinks the story is serious.

yes, it is ethos.

i hope this !

-maddie

i feel like it is actually b.

given the fact that the question is about the detail that best support the idea that oppressive leaders use   propaganda to achieve thir goals,   the first option does not refer to any kind of propaganda, since it only tells about that the milk and the windfall apple should be reserved for the pigs. in the second option, that is, "snowball and napoleon sent out flights of pigeons whose instructions were to mingle with the animals on the neighbouring farms, tell them the story of the rebellion, and teach them the tune of "beasts of england". it can be identified that the oppressors make use of the propaganda, which is represented by the pigeons, and the information they have to tell other animals about what was happening in the farm in order to get their objectives. for that reason, the right answer is the second option, taking into account that the third option do not refer to propaganda since it only talks about that they did not want jones back. and, finally, the last option refers to the result of the given news, but it does not mean about the propaganda they used to achieve their goals.

in the quotation from passage, connie willis states that literature is a way for authors from the past to communicate with readers of today. we can read their stories, books, and other texts to learn lessons about life. willis refers to these lessons as messages “from beyond the grave.” willis has a favorable viewpoint about the timelessness of literature.