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Which statement best explains the author's perspective
about living in Hormuz?
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Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco
Polo
Hormuz is a great and splendid city on the sea, governed
by a malik and with several cities and towns in subjection
to it. The people are Saracens who worship Mahomet. The
climate is excessively hot-so hot that the houses are
fitted with ventilators to catch the wind. The ventilators are
set to face the quarter from which the wind blows and let it
and let it
blow into the house. This they do because they cannot
endure the over-powering heat.
The author is confused by the hot climate and how the
people handle it.
The author is impressed by the hot climate and the
people's response to it.
The author wants to learn more about the worship of
Mahomet in Hormuz.
The author is surprised by the religious practice of the
people of Hormuz.
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first of all the mood needs to be defined: it is obviously a mood of deceitful relief and serenity. why? because the cape horn is one of the most violent maritime regions of earth and although it has been left behind, it is a personification of ahab’s delirium and the fact that the end of the passage speaks about it about being “hidden” but “raving” immediately conveys the feeling the calm is not permanent but fleeting.

furthermore, the oxymoron “mild stun'sails” is the first instance of such feeling as the adjective “mild” is associated with “stunned” underscoring the fleeting nature of this “tranquil” moment. and the contrasts keep piling up, with the opposition between “dark den” and “blessed light and air” to end with the final conclusion that leaves the reader with the uneasy knowledge that this is just a reprieve.

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awnser:

one thing blogging and good copywriting share is a conversational style, and that means it’s fine to fracture the occasional rule of proper grammar in order to communicate effectively. both bloggers and copywriters routinely end sentences with prepositions, dangle a modifier in a purely technical sense, or make liberal use of the ellipsis when an em dash is the correct choice-all in order to write in the way people actually speak. but there are other mistakes that can detract from your credibility. while we all hope what we have to say is more important than some silly grammatical error, the truth is some people will not subscribe or link to your blog if you make dumb mistakes when you write, and buying from you will be out of the question.